{"title":"Endoscope zoom optics using Alvarez lenses","authors":"Yongchao Zou, F. Chau, Guangya Zhou","doi":"10.1109/OMN.2017.8051495","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We report an ultra-compact endoscopic optical zoom system having two tunable Alvarez lenses. The endoscope optics has a diameter about 2 mm and length of 20 mm, and is capable of continuously optical zooming close to 3× from field of view 50° to 18° with satisfactory imaging performances.","PeriodicalId":411243,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OMN.2017.8051495","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We report an ultra-compact endoscopic optical zoom system having two tunable Alvarez lenses. The endoscope optics has a diameter about 2 mm and length of 20 mm, and is capable of continuously optical zooming close to 3× from field of view 50° to 18° with satisfactory imaging performances.