Title

Tunable-focus cylindrical liquid crystal lens

Authors

Authors

H. W. Ren; Y. H. Fan; S. Gauza;S. T. Wu

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Part 1 - Regul. Pap. Short Notes Rev. Pap.

Keywords

liquid crystal cylindrical lens; slit electrodes; tunable focal length; high birefringence liquid crystal; OPTICAL-PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE; Physics, Applied

Abstract

A cylindrical lens is demonstrated using two planar substrates and a homogeneous liquid crystal (LC) layer. The top substrate has slit electrodes on its outer surface and the bottom has a transparent electrode on its inner surface. An applied voltage across the cell induces a cylindrical-like gradient refractive index within the LC layer which causes light to focus. The focal length is tunable by the applied voltage. Such a cylindrical lens can be easily fabricated with wide aperture size.

Journal Title

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1-Regular Papers Short Notes & Review Papers

Volume

43

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

652

Last Page

653

WOS Identifier

WOS:000220401000045

ISSN

0021-4922

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