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Optica, Optics Letters, 4(45), p. 1001, 2020

DOI: 10.1364/ol.383443

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Improvement of liquid crystal tunable lenses with weakly conductive layers using multifrequency driving

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Abstract

A common technique to realize the gradient electric field profile that is required in liquid crystal tunable lenses is the use of a weakly conductive layer. Thanks to this layer, an applied voltage with a certain frequency allows us to obtain a refractive index profile that is required for the lens operation. Due to the limited degrees of freedom, however, it is not possible to avoid aberrations in a weakly conductive layer-based tunable lens for a continuously tunable focal length. In this work, we discuss the use of additional higher frequency components in the voltage signal to reduce the lens aberrations drastically.