Tunable liquid lenses: emerging technologies and future perspectives

C Liu, Y Zheng, RY Yuan, Z Jiang, JB Xu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tunable liquid lenses with controllable focal length attract much attention from many
researchers due to the unique advantages of strong adjustability, low power consumption …

Recent development of tunable optical devices based on liquid

Q Wu, H Zhang, D Jia, T Liu - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Liquid opens up a new stage of device tunability and gradually replaced solid-state devices
and mechanical tuning. It optimizes the control method and improves the dynamic range of …

Non-aqueous organic solution based on a large-aperture spherical electrowetting liquid lens with a wide tunable focal length range

J Xu, Y Zhao, C Liu, Q Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A liquid lens, especially an electrowetting liquid lens, is filled with two immiscible liquids
based on the electrowetting on dielectric effect. The chamber structure of the liquid lens is …

Spray-Printing and Spin Methods to Fabricate Multilayered Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Embedded with Liquid Metal Electrodes

W Xiang, J Ye, Z Xing, P Zhang, X Chen… - ACS Applied …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As high-efficiency electrical responsive materials, multilayer dielectric elastomer actuators
(DEAs) have been widely adopted in fabricating soft robotics. Among various candidate …

Electrowetting liquid lens integrating adaptive liquid iris

JB Xu, YR Zhao, RY Yuan, XW Li, C Liu… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multifunctional integration is the development direction of electrowetting liquid lenses. We
propose an electrowetting liquid lens integrating adaptive liquid iris (ELL-LI) with adjustable …

Ultra-wide varifocal imaging with selectable region of interest capacity using Alvarez lenses actuated by a dielectric elastomer

Q Hao, C Chen, J Cao, Z Li, Y Cheng - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A remarkable feature of Alvarez lenses is that a wide focal length tuning range can be
achieved using lateral displacement rather than commonly used axial translation, thus …

Triple-layer spherical electrowetting liquid lens with large-aperture and high zoom ratio

JB Xu, YR Zhao, C Liu, QH Wang - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a triple-layer spherical electrowetting liquid lens with large-aperture and high
zoom ratio. The chamber of the proposed lens is spherical, which can enlarge the apparent …

Zoom liquid lens with switchable aperture

Z Zhang, L Li, X Liu, L Li, Y Li - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A zoom liquid lens with switchable aperture is demonstrated in this paper, which consists of
a lens chamber, a circular truncated cone, a limit ring and two immiscible liquids. Different …

ITO-activated reconfigurable micro-lens array for dynamic reversible focusing and collimation

L Wang, R Li, N Peng, W Jiang, W Jiang… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Micro-scale optical components with varifocal manipulation, play a crucial role in imaging
and display technology, beam shaping, optical switching, and wavefront-analysis. In order to …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and design of dielectric elastomer actuated tunable lens with dual chambers

C Zhang, H He, Y Li, Y Sun, Z Dong - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
As a novel kind of focus tunable lens, dielectric elastomer actuated liquid lens has a
compact structure, fast response, low cost, and outstanding tunability, which makes it attract …