Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 081102(2025)

Compact mechanical Alvarez lenses with a wide varifocal range using a cam-driver

Cancan Yao1, Qun Hao1, Lin Liu1, Jie Cao1,2,3, Haoyue Xing1, Zhaohui Li1, and Yang Cheng1,2,3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • 2Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing 314003, China
  • 3National Key Laboratory on Near-Surface Detection, Beijing 100072, China
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    Cancan Yao, Qun Hao, Lin Liu, Jie Cao, Haoyue Xing, Zhaohui Li, Yang Cheng, "Compact mechanical Alvarez lenses with a wide varifocal range using a cam-driver," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 081102 (2025)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems and Image Processing

    Received: Feb. 28, 2025

    Accepted: Apr. 8, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Yang Cheng (yangcheng2007@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202523.081102

    CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.081102

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