CN1367399A - Continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device - Google Patents
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The zoom Fresnel lens array device is characterized by its array form consisting of upper and lower two ITO glass base plates between them a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched, and its ITO conducting film possesses etched Fresnel wavestrip. It utilizes the addressing of electric field to control refractive index of liquid crystal layer of every microlens on the array so as to control the length of focal distance of every lattice point. Said device has no need of polarizing disk, and is high in light utilization rate, and the refractive index of liquid crystal layer can be continuously regulated, it can make main focal distance of microlens continuously change in the range of 0.5f-2f.
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One. technical field
The invention belongs to the optical device field, relate to a kind of continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device.It is characterized in that remedying half-wave position phase, reach the optical energy loss minimum with liquid crystal layer; Several Fresnel microlens are arranged in order, and each lenticule forms picture element, and several are Enhanced Imaging light intensity in addition mutually; And reach the purpose of continuous vari-focus by the effective refractive index of electrically-controlled liquid crystal.
Two, technical background
Micro lens is a kind of important optical device, and reflex reflection screen and the integration imaging of two-dimensional array of micro-lenses in photograph shields, and is used to improve detector performance, the little optical collector that lists as focal plane array.Fields such as this external optical information processing, optical communication, optical interconnection and three-dimensional image display system have broad application prospects.Make lenticule with traditional Process at present and mainly contain ion exchange process, compression molding method, fotoceram method for hot forming and photoresist thermosol forming process.The micro lens of making of these methods has a common characteristic, is exactly that lens have only a focal length.The focal length that changes lens is long, needs could realize by the spacing of mechanically reconciling between lens with one group of lens.Use lens combination mechanically zoom not only increases device cost, increases equipment volume, and is difficult for realizing effectively needed focal length.Therefore, people wish to develop simple in structure, in light weight, adaptive lens array device cheaply very much.
Advantages such as in recent years, people have proposed the employing liquid crystal technology and made the self-adaptation lenticule, and liquid crystal microlens adopts the transmittance mode, have control simply, and good reliability and driving voltage are low, this device has huge potential application.Designed several lens device with liquid crystal technology at present,, seen U.S.patent 4 as line style separate mesh electrode structure, 572,616 (Feb.25,1985), protruding, concavees lens combine (Liquid-Crystal Lens-Cells with Variable FocalLength with liquid crystal, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.24, No.8,1985 pp.L626-628), poroid electrode structure (APPLIED OPTICS/Vol.36, No.20/10 July1997, pp4772-4778).Yet the manufacturing technology of these devices is not only complicated, and is difficult to realize two-dimentional driven with active matrix.
Three, summary of the invention
The present invention combines the characteristic of Fresnel zone technology and liquid crystal, utilize the structure of Fresnel zone and the characteristics of liquid crystal variations in refractive index under electric field action to be made into lenticule, then lenticule is arranged, purpose provides a kind of continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device.
Design concept of the present invention can be illustrated by Fig. 1.Fig. 1 is adjacent wavestrip cross section structure figure in the Fresnel liquid crystal wavestrip device.Fig. 1 (a) is under the added electric field situation not, liquid crystal layer state and refractive index, and Fig. 1 (b) is liquid crystal layer state and a refractive index under the added electric field situation.Structural drawing shown in Figure 1 is made up of two glass substrates up and down with conventional liquid crystal device structure is the same, and the folded liquid crystal layer in two substrates centre is the chiral liquid crystal material, is 180 ° along the face aligned twisted when added electric field not.In fact this device is exactly common liquid crystal cell.Because electrode shape is the Fresnel zone structure, therefore the electrode of this liquid crystal cell is divided into left and right sides two parts.Shown in Fig. 1 (b), when when right half part applies voltage, the liquid crystal of right half part will become the liquid crystal molecule of 180 ° of distortions not arranging along face along electric field orientation, arrange but form the distortion rotation, and screw axis is in the substrate surface normal direction.Refractive index changes.By mean refractive index n
AveBecome effective refractive index n
EffAlso through the ambient light of liquid crystal cell, in any direction, its left and right sides two parts will make light produce identical phase delay for vertical incidence.Reconcile the orientation of liquid crystal, then phase delay will be reconciled.If left and right sides two parts of this device are regarded as strange, the even wavestrip of adjacent Fresnel, then this device is exactly a Fresnel position phase wavestrip device.
The present invention arranges each Fresnel phase place wavestrip in length and breadth in order according to above-mentioned principle of design, forms array structure.
The present invention is by up and down two glass substrates and the liquid crystal layer between two glass substrates constitute.Two substrate inside surfaces apply or are coated with the ITO electrode, and the shape of electrode is to be vertically and horizontally arranged into array by several Fresnel zone structures.The shape of the electrode shape of upper substrate and infrabasal plate electrode is identical, and the Fresnel ring-type wavestrip electrode pattern mirror image balanced configuration of upper and lower base plate that is to say that both video each other.It may be noted that, the upper substrate electrode is different with the connected mode of infrabasal plate electrode, if each row of the Fresnel zone electrode of arranging on the upper substrate couples together with public electrode, each row of the Fresnel zone electrode of arranging on the infrabasal plate so couple together with public electrode; If each row of the Fresnel zone electrode of arranging on the upper substrate couple together with public electrode, each row of the Fresnel zone electrode of arranging on the infrabasal plate couples together with public electrode.Make that like this common electrode of upper and lower base plate is mutually perpendicular, form X to Y to intersection addressing matrix system.One deck is arranged with the contacted oriented layer of liquid crystal layer at the upper and lower base plate inside surface, the liquid crystal layer between upper and lower base plate is the twisted nematic liquid crystal material that is mixed with the chirality agent, and the liquid crystal molecule of liquid crystal layer is 180 ° along the face aligned twisted when added electric field not.When applying electric field, liquid crystal molecule is subjected to electric field action, arranges to break away from original face, forms 180 ° of rotation arrangements along direction of an electric field and forms conveyor screw, and its screw axis is along the substrate surface normal direction.
Fresnel zone on the upper and lower base plate of the present invention electricity level shape and arranging as shown in Figure 2,1 be upper substrate among the figure, 2 be infrabasal plate, electric grade of 3 Fresnel zones, 4 is the upper substrate public electrode, 6 is the infrabasal plate public electrode.
Upper and lower base plate of the present invention applies or is coated with the ITO conducting film, adopts photomask etching method or alternate manner to make the Fresnel zone structure electrode, and forms the orderly array way of ranks, and each row or column connects with common electrode.Specifically, adopt mask or alternate manner to make Fresnel zone electrode 3 on upper substrate 1, each Fresnel zone electrode 3 forms the orderly array way of ranks, and with upper substrate common electrode 4, each Fresnel zone electrode 3 of going is coupled together.Adopt mask or alternate manner to make Fresnel electrode 3 on the infrabasal plate 2, each Fresnel zone 3 forms the orderly array way of ranks, and with infrabasal plate common electrode 6, and the Fresnel zone electrode 3 of each row is coupled together.
Fresnel ring electrode structure Design of the present invention can realize according to the method for making of conventional fresnel's zone plate.Each ring electrode radius is expressed as
, r wherein
1Be inside radius.M is the ring electrode ordinal number.
Be mixed with the twisted nematic liquid crystal material of chirality agent in the upper and lower base plate of the present invention, after applying electric field, refractive index changes.If each variations in refractive index difference represents with Δ n, Δ n=n then
Ave-n
EffFor the purpose of the present invention, Δ n is 0.2～0.3.
Because the optical property of Fresnel zone is influenced by the stroke of medium by refractive index or variations in refractive index difference and light, the stroke of medium is exactly the thickness of liquid crystal layer to the present invention, just the thick clearance such as grade between the two substrates.In order to finish task of the present invention, reach ideal effect, thickness d is 4～6 μ m between the two substrates.
The present invention is under effect of electric field, and refractive index changes, and causes focal length also to change.Therefore another characteristics of the present invention are under electric field action, and focal length is adjustable continuously.If the focal length of added electric field is not f, claim former focal length, focal length of the present invention can change in 0.5f～2f scope continuously when applying electric field.
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Fig. 1 is adjacent wavestrip cross section structure figure in the Fresnel liquid crystal wavestrip device.Fig. 1 (a) is under the added electric field situation not, liquid crystal layer state and refractive index, n
AveBe mean refractive index; Fig. 1 (b) is under electric field action, liquid crystal layer state and refractive index, n
EffBe effective refractive index.1 is upper substrate, and 2 is infrabasal plate, and 3 is the Fresnel zone electrode, and 5 is liquid crystal layer.
Fig. 2 is the Fresnel zone electrode shape and the arrangement architecture figure of upper and lower base plate of the present invention.4 is the upper substrate public electrode among the figure, the public electrode of 6 infrabasal plates.
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Adopt the mask lithography method that the ITO electrode on two glass substrates all is etched into identical wavestrip array structure, the wavestrip number is 5 * 5, and wherein the inside radius of each wavestrip is 0.5mm, and each wavestrip has 16 odd number bands.With public electrode each train wave band of upper substrate is coupled together; With public electrode each row wavestrip of lower glass substrate is coupled together.Coat polyimide alignment layers again at the ITO electrode surface, and the friction of coverlet direction.Liquid crystal cell is made in the placement of glass plate symmetry, the frictional direction antiparallel, the public electrode on two glass substrates is perpendicular.The nematic liquid crystal that is mixed with the chirality agent is injected liquid crystal cell, make liquid crystal along 180 ° of substrate surface distortions.Give up and down that optional two public electrodes between two substrates apply voltage, then driven wavestrip pixel plays focussing force to He-Ne laser, and focal length can be conditioned with the variation of electric field intensity.
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1, a kind of continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device is characterized in that accompanying liquid crystal layer between upper substrate (1) and the infrabasal plate (2), and the ITO layer on the two substrates inside surface is etched to the two-dimensional array of Fresnel ring-type wavestrip electrode; On upper substrate (1), all the Fresnel zone electrodes (3) on the same row or column are connected by upper substrate public electrode (4), and on infrabasal plate (2), all the Fresnel zone electrodes (3) on the same column or row are connected by infrabasal plate public electrode (6); Fresnel zone electrode (3) figure mirror image balanced configuration on the upper and lower base plate; Upper substrate public electrode (4) and infrabasal plate public electrode (6) are orthogonal, form x to y to intersection addressing matrix system.
2, the described continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device of claim 1 is characterized in that described liquid crystal layer is the twisted nematic liquid crystal material that is mixed with the chirality agent.
3, according to the described continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device of claim 2, it is characterized in that liquid crystal is 180 ° of distortion rotations and arranges, its screw axis is in the substrate surface normal direction.
4, according to the described continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device of claim 3, it is characterized in that the anisotropic refraction rate difference DELTA n of liquid crystal is 0.2～0.3, the uniform thickness gap d between upper substrate (1) and the infrabasal plate (2) is 4～6 μ m.
5, according to the described continuous vari-focus Fresnel microlens array device of claim 3, it is characterized in that refractive index with electric field modulating liquid crystalline substance, the focal length of lens changes in 0.5f～2f scope continuously.
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