Liquid crystal lens with large focal length tunability and low operating voltage

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11328-11335

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Fox, David W ^a   Wu, Benjamin ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; LASER TUNING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; STABILITY;

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; CURVED ELECTRODE; SHORT FOCAL LENGTH;

LENSES;

EID: 34548402616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011328     Document Type: Article

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