Low aberrations symmetrical adaptive modal liquid crystal lens with short focal lengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2778-2783

  Fraval, Nicolas ^a   De Bougrenet De La Tocnaye, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRODES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COMPOSITE POLYMER; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FOCAL LENGTHS; LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; SHORT FOCAL LENGTHS; SYMMETRICAL ELECTRODES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 77956005191     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002778     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. S. Sato, "Liquid-crystal lens cells with variable focal length", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 18, 1679-1684 (1979).
2. L. G. Commander, S. E. Day, and D. R. Selviah, "Variable focal length microlenses", Opt. Commun. 177, 157-170 (2000).
3. S. T. Kowel, D. S. Cleverly, and P. G. Kornreich, "Focusing by electrical modulation of refraction in a liquid crystal cell", Appl. Opt. 23, 278-289 (1984).
4. T. Nose and S. Sato, "A liquid crystal microlens obtained with a nonuniform electric field", Liq. Cryst. 5, 1425 (1989).
5. T. Nose, S. Masuda, and S. Sato, "Optical properties of a liquid crystal microlens with a symmetric electrode structure", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Lett. 30, 2110-2112 (1991).
6. A. F. Naumov, M. Y. Loktev, I. R. Guralnik, and G. Vdovin, "Liquid-crystal adaptive lenses with modal control", Opt. Lett. 23, 992-994 (1998).
7. G. V. Vdovin, I. R. Guralnik, S. P. Kotova, M. Y. Loktev, and A. F. Naumov, "Liquid-crystal lenses with a controlled focal length. I. Theory", Quantum Electron. 29, 256-260 (1999).
8. G. V. Vdovin, I. R. Guralnik, S. P. Kotova, M. Y. Loktev, and A. F. Naumov, "Liquid-crystal lenses with a controlled focal length. II. Numerical optimisation and experiments", Quantum Electron. 29, 261-264 (1999).
9. P. J. W. Hands, A. K. Kirby and G. D. Love, "Adaptive modally addressed liquid crystal lenses", Proc. SPIE 5518, 136-143 (2004).
10. M. Amberg, A. Oeder, S. Sinzinger, P. J. W. Hands, and G. D. Love, "Tuneable planar integrated optical systems", Opt. Express 15, 10607-10614 (2007).
11. N. Fraval, P. Joffre, S. Formont, and J. Chazelas, "Electrically tunable liquid-crystal wave plate using quadripolar electrode configuration and transparent conductive polymer layers", Appl. Opt. 48, 5301-5306 (2009).
12. C. Geuzaine, P. Dular, and W. Legros, "A general environment for the treatment of discrete problems and its application to coupled finite element and boundary integral methods", IEEE Trans. Magn. 34, 3395-3398 (1998).
13. F. D. Pasquale, F. Fernandez, S. Day, and J. Davies, "Two- dimensional finite-element modeling of nematic liquid crystal devices for optical communications and displays", IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 128-134 (1996).
14. M. Honma, T. Nose, and S. Sato, "Optimization of device parameters for minimizing spherical aberration and astigmatism in liquid crystal microlenses", Opt. Rev. 6, 139-146 (1999).
15. M. Y. Loktev, V. N. Belopukhov, F. L. Vladimirov, G. V. Vdovin, G. D. Love, and A. F. Naumov, "Wave front control systems based on modal liquid crystal lenses", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 3290-3297 (2000).
16. A. K. Kirby, P. J. W. Hands, and G. D. Love, "Liquid crystal multi-mode lenses and axicons based on electronic phase shift control", Opt. Express 15, 13496-13501 (2007).
17. G. Williams, N. J. Powell, A. Purvis, and M. G. Clark, "Electrically controllable liquid-crystal fresnel lens", Proc. SPIE 1168, 352 (1989).