LC Lenses

Light aperture:

5 mm

Transmission:

75%

Polarization:

works with linearly polarized light

Focal distance:

0.3 m to infinity

Control voltage:

0 to 9V

Control frequency:

1 to 60 kHz

Switching speed

780 ms from 1 to 2 m focal distance,

860 ms from 2 to 1 m

Unit size:

10 mm diameter
4 mm thickness

Control:

PC ISA driver board; function generator

Software:

Windows, DOS version incl source code

Power consumption:

negligible

Lenses with customized parameters are available by request.

Literature:

• Liquid-crystal adaptive lenses with modal control, Optics Letters 23, 992-994 (1998)
• Multichannel liquid-crystal-based wave-front corrector with modal influence functions, Optics Letters 23, 1550-1552 (1998)
• Wavefront control systems based on modal liquid crystal lenses, Review of Scientific Instruments 71, 3290-3297 (2000)
• Modal liquid crystal wavefront corrector, Optics Express 10, 1258-1272 (2002)