Multifunctional optofluidic lens with beam steering.

In this paper, we demonstrate a multifunctional optofluidic (MO) lens with beam steering, which is actuated by electrowetting effect. A liquid lens chamber and a liquid prism chamber are stacked to form the MO lens. When the liquid lens chamber is actuated with voltage, the curvature of liquid-liquid interface changes accordingly and the focal length of the liquid lens can be varied. In the liquid prism chamber, a navigation sheet is just placed on the position of the liquid-liquid interface. When the liquid prism chamber is applied with voltage, the navigation sheet can be tilted to different angles in order to adjust the beam steering angle and keep high beam quality. Thereby, the MO lens has the zoom lens and the beam steering functions. The experiments show that the focal length can be tuned from -180 mm to -∞ and +∞ to 161 mm and the maximum beam tilt angle can be adjusted from 0° to 22.8° when the voltage is applied on one side of the electrode. The proposed MO lens can be applied in zoom imaging system, laser detecting system, and lighting system.

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