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 …

Solar biofuels production with microalgae

PC Hallenbeck, M Grogger, M Mraz, D Veverka - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
With impending climate change and ever decreasing supplies of easily extractable fossil
fuel, means to produce renewable and sustainable replacement fuels are being sought …

Compact eye-tracked head-mounted display

H Hua, C Gao - US Patent 9,720,232, 2017 - Google Patents
Eye-tracked head-mounted displays are provide which, in one aspect, may utilize the same
optics for eyetracking and image viewing, with a selected portion of the optics used for an …

Wearable 3D augmented reality display

H Hua, B Javidi - US Patent 10,326,983, 2019 - Google Patents
US10326983B2 - Wearable 3D augmented reality display - Google Patents
US10326983B2 - Wearable 3D augmented reality display - Google Patents Wearable 3D …

3D displays in augmented and virtual realities with holographic optical elements

Y Li, Q Yang, J Xiong, K Yin, ST Wu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Three-dimensional (3D) displays have been vastly investigated in the past few decades.
Recent development of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) has further …

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 …

Large depth of focus dynamic micro integral imaging for optical see-through augmented reality display using a focus-tunable lens

X Shen, B Javidi - Applied optics, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a three-dimensional (3D) dynamic integral-imaging (InIm)-system-
based optical see-through augmented reality display with enhanced depth range of a 3D …

Depth-enhanced head-mounted light field displays based on integral imaging

X Wang, H Hua - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Conventional display systems based on integral imaging (InI) suffer from a major tradeoff
between depth of field and spatial resolution. In this Letter, a new, to the best of our …

Tunable liquid crystal multifocal microlens array

JF Algorri, N Bennis, V Urruchi, P Morawiak… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
A novel liquid crystal microlens array with tunable multifocal capability, high optical power
and fill-factor is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A specific hole pattern design …

Liquid crystal integrated metalens with dynamic focusing property

S Zhou, Z Shen, X Li, S Ge, Y Lu, W Hu - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Metalenses are developing fast towards versatile and integrated terahertz (THz)
apparatuses, while tunable ones are highly pursued. Here, we propose a strategy that …