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Product

PDN-1000 Tunable lens unit

Description

Features

DN-1000 lens has tunable focal length characteristics equivalent with a capacitor electrically, which needs an a.c. voltage to drive. The changes in focus are made by changing the voltage (Vrms).
The voltage has to be maintained for keeping the lens at a given focal length.

Due to the Varioptic’s electrowetting technology and it’s totally protected numerous patents, DN-1000 opens new horizon of optics industry together with glass and plastic material based conventional lenses.

	large changes in focal lengths
	no moving parts
	direct electric drive
	fast response time
	good transparency
	large operating temperature range
	excellent reproducibility
	excellent stability of the optical axis
	very low electrical power consumption
	shock and vibration stability

Applications

	Medical imaging
	Portable and low consumption video/still cameras
	Optical reading
	Scientific optics
	Photo-video
	Pc web-cam
	Military applications
	Low power Laser control

Technical specifications

	min	typical	max	unit
Aperture diameter		4.5		mm
Driving voltage			60	Vrms
Tunable focal length range		20	25	dioptries (m -1 )
Operating frequency	300	1,000	30,000	Hz
Cycle time *		1,000,000		cycles
Wave front distortion		1	1.75	µm
Transparency ‡ (350nm - 750nm)	87	90	95	%
Operating temperature	15	25	40	°C
Electrical consumption		1.0	1.5	mW
Quality factor	15	20	40

Typical application

Description

With only adding DN-1000 as cover lens like the system, lens will get function enhancement of autofocus. The overall MTF degradation is very little in the total optical system. The simulation result also available.§

Companion product information **
	Varioptic drive IC	Part Number: VOIC-1000
	Varioptic drive IC module	Part Number: VOIC-9000

* Cycle time defined as the number of operation with keeping the quality described in this datasheet.
† Response time defined as the reaching time of 90% to the target diopter with changing wanted step voltage
‡ tested without IR coating
§ for more details, contact Varioptic sales office
** for more information, refer to Varioptic sales office

Varioptic
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