Planar liquid confinement for optical centering of dielectric liquid lenses

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1396-1398

  Tsai, C Gary ^a   Chen, Chi Nan ^a   Cheng, Li Shun ^a   Cheng, Chih Cheng ^a   Yang, Jing Tang ^b   Yeh, J Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dielectric force; Liquid confinement structure; Liquid lens; Optical centering

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FORCE; GEOMETRIC CENTER; GLASS SUBSTRATES; LIQUID LENS; OPERATION MODE; OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL CENTERING; TILT ANGLE;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; ELECTRODES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

LENSES;

EID: 70349585378     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2028154     Document Type: Article

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