Liquid-crystal micro-lens array with variable focusing and deflecting functions

Marenori Kawamura; Jyunki Teragaki; Kento Nakamura; Susumu Sato

doi:10.1117/12.2023790

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12 September 2013 Liquid-crystal micro-lens array with variable focusing and deflecting functions

Marenori Kawamura, Jyunki Teragaki, Kento Nakamura, Susumu Sato

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Proceedings Volume 8828, Liquid Crystals XVII; 882819 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2023790
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a liquid crystal (LC) micro-lens array with two-divided and hexagonal-hole-patterned electrodes for varying a focal length and a beam deflection angle. The possibilities of lens-like refractive index distributions in the hexagonal region of the LC micro-lens array are discussed. We investigate the optical properties such as the focal length and beam deflection of the micro-lens array by measuring the refractive index distributions and the transmitted light intensity distributions.

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Marenori Kawamura, Jyunki Teragaki, Kento Nakamura, and Susumu Sato "Liquid-crystal micro-lens array with variable focusing and deflecting functions", Proc. SPIE 8828, Liquid Crystals XVII, 882819 (12 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2023790

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