Optical lens with electrically variable focus using an optically hidden dielectric structure

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13981-13992

  Asatryan, Karen ^a   Presnyakov, Vladimir ^a   Tork, Amir ^a   Zohrabyan, Armen ^a   Bagramyan, Aram ^a   Galstian, Tigran ^a,b  

^a LensVector Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; DOUBLET LENS; DRIVING SCHEMES; EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; ELECTRICAL DRIVING; HIDDEN LAYERS; LENS APERTURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS; OPTICAL FUNCTION; OPTICAL LENS; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE; TWO-MATERIALS; VARIABLE FOCUS; VARIABLE GRADIENT;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EPOXIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77953849393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013981     Document Type: Article

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