Optical component for refracting light rays passing through the optical component

Optical component for deflecting light beams which pass through the optical component, with multiple fluid cells, which are arranged next to each other in a regular structure, and an influencing means, where a fluid cell contains at least two immiscible fluids, where an interface will form between two fluids of a fluid cell, where the interface is given a specifiable shape and/or orientation by the influencing means, where a fluid cell comprises at least one optical medium, where the optical medium is disposed adjacent to a fluid of the fluid cell, where the shape of the surface of the optical medium which faces the adjacently arranged fluid cannot be changed, where the optical medium serves to deflect the light beams which pass through the fluid cell by a specifiable angle and where the optical media of the fluid cells of the optical component are made and/or formed such that the optical component realises an optical imaging function.