Adaptive liquid crystal lens with large focal length tunability

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11292-11298

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE (ITO) ELECTRODES; LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS; SAG REGION; TUNABILITY;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 33751076013     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011292     Document Type: Article

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