Liquid-lens technologies designed to meet the insatiable demands of the mobile-phone industry are now being deployed in other imaging systems. Philippe Ruffin explains to OLE how Varioptic is adapting ...

Lenses are a huge part of any camera system, weather it be on your cell phone, video camera or DSLR. One of the issues with our current lenses is they have to be mechanically adjusted where as liquid ...

Earlier this year, we had reported on LG Innotek and Corning working on Liquid Lens technology that could seemingly benefit the smartphone photography. Now, an from the latter firm had touted the ...

Camera phones could be freed from the curse of handshake blur, thanks to a new liquid lens developed by Varioptic (Lyon, France) and shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. The ...

A liquid-lens system with no moving parts and integrated driver lets users accurately focus miniature autofocus cameras at close range. Rogers Corp., Rogers, Conn., and Varioptic in France ...

Filipino scientists have discovered a simple, affordable way to make dynamically adjustable water-based lenses that have a wide variety of potential future applications—from classrooms and research ...

Apple is working on technology that could allow you to ditch the expensive Zeiss inserts needed to correct vision issues on the Apple Vision Pro. Future headsets could dynamically change focus based ...

While cell-phone cameras are growing in popularity, their electromechanical autofocus lens systems can be costly and complicated. Yet a liquid lens from Varioptic promises to lower these costs and ...

Left and right Diagram showing how left circularly polarized (LCP) light is converted by the bifocal lens into separated beams of LCP light and right circularly polarized (RCP) light. (Courtesy: Fan ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they need ...