Tunable-focus liquid lens controlled using a servo motor

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8031-8036

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Fox, David ^a   Anderson, P Andrew ^a   Wu, Benjamin ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYEGLASSES; GLASS; RUBBER; SERVOMOTORS;

AUTO BEAM STEERING; ELASTIC MEMBRANE; ELASTIC RUBBER; ZOOM LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 33748291381     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008031     Document Type: Article

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