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AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsZhenan Bao, Timofei Nikita Kroupenkine, Alan Michael Lyons, Mary Louise Mandich, Louis Thomas Manzione, Elsa Reichmanis, Shu Yang
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A tunable microlens uses a layer of photo-conducting material which results in a voltage differential between at least one of a plurality of electrodes and a droplet of conducting liquid when a light beam is incident upon the photo-conducting material. Such droplet, which forms the optics of the microlens, moves toward an electrode with higher voltage relative to other electrodes in the microlens. Thus, for example, when the light beam is misaligned with the microlens, the voltage differential causes the droplet, and hence the microlens, to realign itself with the beam.
A tunable liquid microlens comprising:
A tunable liquid microlens comprising:
A method for use in aligning a light beam incident upon a photoconducting material with a droplet of conducting liquid, said method comprising:
A method for use in aligning a light beam with a droplet of conducting liquid in a tunable liquid microlens, wherein each of a first plurality of electrodes is electrically coupled to an opposing electrode in a second plurality of electrodes, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.