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Polymer-Based Wide-Angle Micro -Optic Lens System With Dynamically Variable Focal Length And Field Of View, Mangilal Agarwal

Doctoral Dissertations

A novel polymer-based integrated wide-angle dynamic micro-optical lens system that can provide variable focal length and field of view (FOV) with large numerical aperture is designed, fabricated, and tested for its optical characteristics.

Initial experiments were conducted using static glass lenses to test for configuration of lenses that could provide wide FOV. From these initial experiments, it was found that the higher FOV could be achieved with double concave (DCV) lenses compared to double convex (DCX) lenses of the same focal length. Further, it was observed that increasing the number of DCV lenses increases FOV. Thus, an integrated dynamic polymer …