Liquid crystal lenses with tunable focal length

YH Lin, YJ Wang, V Reshetnyak - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Lenses with tunable focal length play important roles in nature by helping species avoid
predators and capture prey. Many practical devices mimic lens concept for imaging, sensing …

Multifocal displays: review and prospect

T Zhan, J Xiong, J Zou, ST Wu - PhotoniX, 2020 - Springer
Conventional stereoscopic three-dimensional displays suffer from vergence-accommodation
conflict because the stimulus to accommodation is fixed by the display panel and viewing …

Simultaneous effects of external stimuli on preparation and performance parameters of normally transparent reverse mode polymer-dispersed liquid crystals—a …

V Sharma, P Kumar, KK Raina - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
With the maturation of display devices using liquid crystal (LC) materials, likely, in normally
transparent reverse mode polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) devices' performance …

Augmented reality display system with variable focus

T Vallius - US Patent 9,927,614, 2018 - Google Patents
A near-eye optical display system that may be utilized in augmented reality applications and
devices includes a diffractive waveguide having diffractive optical elements (DOEs) …

Reverse-mode PSLC multi-plane optical see-through display for AR applications

S Liu, Y Li, P Zhou, Q Chen, Y Su - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper we propose an optical see-through multi-plane display with reverse-mode
polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC). Our design solves the problem of accommodation …

Liquid crystal technology for vergence-accommodation conflicts in augmented reality and virtual reality systems: a review

YJ Wang, YH Lin - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
With the help of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems, users can receive
information and connect with each other via near-eye displays (NEDs). However, several …

3D head-up display with a multiple extended depth of field based on integral imaging and holographic optical elements

Z Lv, J Li, Y Yang, J Liu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose a 3D head-up display with a multiple extended depth of field based on integral
imaging and holographic optical elements (HOEs). The system consists of two components …

Design of foveated contact lens display for augmented reality

J Chen, L Mi, CP Chen, H Liu, J Jiang, W Zhang - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a design of a contact lens display, which features an array of collimated light-
emitting diodes and a contact lens, for the augmented reality. By building the infrastructure …

Multi-plane augmented reality display based on cholesteric liquid crystal reflective films

Q Chen, Z Peng, Y Li, S Liu, P Zhou, J Gu, J Lu… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
To address the accommodation-convergence conflict problem in conventional augmented
reality (AR) head-mounted displays, we propose a compact multi-plane display design …

Liquid crystal tunable terahertz lens with spin-selected focusing property

Z Shen, S Zhou, S Ge, W Duan, L Ma, Y Lu, W Hu - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate an active spin-selected lens with liquid crystal (LC) in the
terahertz (THz) range. The lens is a superposition of two geometric phase lenses with …