Jones, JC orcid.org/0000-0002-2310-0800, Wahle, M orcid.org/0000-0002-2241-9975, Bailey, J et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Polarisation Independent Liquid Crystal Lenses and Contact Lenses using Embossed Reactive Mesogens. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 28 (3). pp. 211-223. ISSN 1071-0922
Abstract
Liquid crystal lenses have promise in optical systems owing to their tunability combined with low electrical power, cost, and weight. A good example of such a system is switchable contact lenses for the correction of age‐related presbyopia. Sufficiently large phase modulation can be done using nematic liquid crystals in a meniscus lens configuration. However, the birefringent materials are inherently polarisation dependent, usually requiring orthogonal polarisations to be focussed separately. A novel method is presented for producing polarisation independent lenses based on reactive mesogens. Results are presented for a 2‐level and 3‐level diffractive Fresnel lenses, and the promise of the technique for use in refractive lenses such as contact lenses is discussed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Journal of the Society for Information Display published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Information Display. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | adaptive optics, embossing, liquid crystal lens, nematic, reactive mesogens, switchable contact lens |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Soft Matter Physics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EP/L015188/2 Merck Ltd Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2020 12:13 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/jsid.874 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155005 |
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