Varifocal optical system
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHector Navarro Fructuoso, Panji Setiawan
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Abstract
A focus tunable optical system includes a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes: focus tunable lenses (FTLs) coaxially disposed along an optical axis, each FTL contributing to an optical power of the lens assembly; and a controller configured to control the optical power of the lens assembly by applying to each FTL a respective control signal, thereby generating a periodic optical response of the respective FTL. The optical response of each FTL is substantially different from the optical response of any other FTL of the plurality of FTLs.
Claims14
A focus tunable optical system, comprising:
- a lens assembly comprising a plurality of focus tunable lenses (FTLs) coaxially disposed along an optical axis, each of the FTLs contributing to an optical power of the lens assembly;
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- a controller configured to control the optical power of the lens assembly by respectively applying to each of the FTLs a respective control signal, thereby generating a periodic optical response of each of the respective FTLs,
- wherein the respective optical response of each of the FTLs is substantially different from the respective optical response of any other FTL of the plurality of FTLs,
- wherein the controller is configured to perform a Fourier analysis of a desired optical response and to generate for each or one or more of the FTLs the respective control signal in proportion to a sum of one or more Fourier components of the desired optical response.
A method for controlling a focus tunable optical system, the method comprising:
- controlling an optical power of a lens assembly, which comprises a plurality of focus tunable lenses (FTLs) coaxially disposed along an optical axis of the lens assembly;
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- respectively applying to each of the FTLs a respective control signal, thereby generating a periodic optical response of each of the respective FTLs,
- wherein the optical response of each of the FTLs contributes to the optical power of the lens assembly and is substantially different from the optical response from any other FTL of the plurality of FTLs,
- the method further comprises performing a Fourier analysis of a desired optical response and to generating for each or one or more of the FTLs the respective control signal in proportion to a sum of one or more Fourier components of the desired optical response.
A focus tunable optical system, comprising:
- a lens assembly comprising a plurality of focus tunable lenses (FTLs) coaxially disposed along an optical axis, each of the FTLs contributing to an optical power of the lens assembly;
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- a controller configured to control the optical power of the lens assembly by respectively applying to each of the FTLs a respective control signal, thereby generating a periodic optical response of each of the respective FTLs,
- wherein the respective optical response of each of the FTLs is substantially different from the respective optical response of any other FTL of the plurality of FTLs,
- wherein the plurality of FTLs comprises a first FTL, a second FTL, and a third FTL,
- wherein the optical response of the first FTL approximates a first sum of a number of Fourier components of a desired optical response of the lens assembly,
- wherein the optical response of the second FTL approximates a second sum of a subset of the remainder of the Fourier components of the desired optical response of the lens assembly to compensate for a first residual of the first FTL,
- wherein the optical response of the third FTL approximates a third sum of the remaining Fourier components of the desired optical response of the lens assembly to compensate for a second residual of the second FTL, and
- wherein a sum of the respective optical response of each of the first FTL, the second FTL, and the third FTL approximates the desired optical response.
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