Tunable liquid lenses with controllable focal length attract much attention from many
researchers due to the unique advantages of strong adjustability, low power consumption …

Optical lenses with electrically controllable focal length are of growing interest, in order to
reduce the complexity, size, weight, response time and power consumption of conventional …

Fluorescence microscopy with optical sectioning capabilities is extensively utilized in
biological research to obtain three-dimensional structural images of volumetric samples …

The advent of spatial control over the phase and amplitude of light waves has profoundly
transformed photonics, enabling major advances in fields from imaging and information …

We present a smart, thermally stimulated liquid crystal elastomer actuator with an integrated
heater and temperature sensor based on deformable polyimide wiring technology. Due to …

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 …

Optofluidics is a rapidly growing versatile branch of adaptive optics including a wide variety
of applications such as tunable beam shaping tools, mirrors, apertures, and lenses. In this …

The holy grail of reconfigurable optics for microscopy, machine vision and other imaging
technologies is a compact, in-line, low cost, refractive device that could dynamically tune …

We demonstrate a tunable imaging system based on the functionality of the mammalian eye
using soft-matter micro-optical components. Inspired by the structure of the eye, as well as …

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized modern ophthalmology, providing
depth resolved images of the retinal layers in a system that is suited to a clinical …