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)