Business Devices

Varioptic Liquid Lens for Business Devices



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Liquid Lens – no moving parts, robust, fast and low cost. The smart way to build variable focus optical designs...

Liquid lens auto focus solutions enable you to produce the best optical quality imaging systems for your target application.  By using liquid lens capabilities you can gain competitive advantage for your imaging systems.

Liquid lenses are being integrated in an increasing range of applications, including bar code readers, machine vision, automotive, security devices, medical and dental cameras.

Customers are choosing liquid-lens solutions to benefit from:
- very close focus (from infinity to 5 cm)
- high optical quality
- fast response time
- accurate and high repeatability – able to work with open-loop control
- reliable and robust (in excess of 30 million cycles)
- ease of integration


With its fast response time of just 20 ms, the liquid lens delivers major advantages for recognition systems: 1D or 2D bar codes, or biometric identification such as face-, iris- and fingerprint-systems.

Integrating the liquid lens in your design could not be much simpler
Get started with your optical design today and request a Liquid Lens Developer kit. For more information regarding your application, contact sales@varioptic.com. We’re committed to delivering the best solutions and helping our customers to make their designs a reality.

Click below to see an example of a design with the liquid lens:
Varioptic Liquid Lens in IVA 2MP CMOS camera


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We have developed the following liquid lens products for integration in industrial applications:

Liquid Lenses
Arctic 314
 

The new Arctic 314 has been especially designed to match the requirements of low footprint systems, for both 1/4" and 1/3" formats.  With the advent of high quality ( high resolution, small pixel pitch) image sensors, the need for compact, reliable and inexpensive autofocus solutions is now emerging.

Arctic 314 matches image quality requirements up to 5MP, and is especially suitable for the current trend of slim camera phones and miniature industrial cameras.   For more information, contact sales@varioptic.com

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Arctic 416
 

The Arctic 416 is the perfect fit for low footprint systems, especially suitable for the current trend of slim camera phones and miniature industrial cameras. It provides a fast track to market for OEMs and ODMs looking for an easy to integrate, high performance auto focus solution.

Taking full advantage of the ARCTIC 416 features, such as its inherent accuracy and un-matched response time, much simpler auto focus strategies can be applied to obtain sharp, crisp focus in time never reached before. For more information, contact sales@varioptic.com.

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Drivers
HV895
 

Supertex (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Varioptic have developed a complete low footprint liquid lens and driver solution, HV895, to add auto-focus capability in cell phones and PDA cameras, barcode readers and laptop cameras, biometric scanners and ultra compact cameras.

To order and for more information, click here http://www.supertex.com/Feature_HV895.html

Press release: Supertex and Varioptic to provide advanced low-footprint, Autofocus, Liquid Lens solutions

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DrivIC 60
 

The DrivIC 60 Series provides developers and integrators with a set of driver solutions for the ARCTIC Series of variable focus lenses.

The DrivIC 60 LL3 solution is based on a step-up converter from Durel (www.durel.com), which is tuneable through an adjustable pin. Its H-bridge output can drive Varioptic’s ARCTIC liquid lenses by supplying up to 60VRMS into a capacitive load of 500pF maximum. The DrivIC 60 LL3 uses an external inductor and capacitor as part of the boost power supply. It can be shut down to conserve power in battery operation.

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Developers Kits
Liquid Lens Developer's Kits
 

Integrating Varioptic's Liquid Lens in your optical design could not be simpler. Varioptic's liquid lens products have no moving parts and are ideally suited for designing small aperture lens systems allowing variable focus. 

Varioptic is fully ISO9001 certified, and its liquid lens solutions are subject to stringent quality control and evaluation tests. 

To order a developer kit, please contact sales@varioptic.com

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