Tutorial on how to use an off-the-shelf liquid lens as a tunable asphere using surface oscillations

Poster (2018)

Authors

M. Strauch ImPhys/Optics - AS
P.A.A.M. Somers ImPhys/Optics - AS
Paul Urbach ImPhys/Optics - AS
Research Group
ImPhys/Optics (AS) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Applied Sciences

Department

ImPhys/Imaging Physics

Research Group

ImPhys/Optics

Abstract

Liquid lenses are a widespread solution for easy adaptive optics problems due to their low price. We present a technique based on surface oscillations, that extends the functionality to create a tunable asphere at the expense of light efficiency without the use of additional hardware.