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Liquid-crystal material demonstrates a special property of optical anisotropy. So far, it is widely used in many fields including flat panel displaying and other various optoelectronic devices. Electrically controlled liquid-crystal microlenses have presented some unique capabilities such as swinging focus over the focal plane and tuning focal length only by electrical signals applied over them. According to the typical electro-optical characteristics of nematic liquid-crystal materials, a liquid-crystal microlens array (LCMLA) with a featured zoned quasi-single-microhole electrode with more controlling area than the past microelectrode structure developed by us, which is applied by a multiplexed controlling signals according to an electrically scanning fashion, is proposed for realizing a new type of dual-mode imaging including one addressable wavefront measurement and correction through sensor array zoned by LCMLA, and another intensity image. Each sub-electrode in a quasi-single-microhole electrode can be individually driving and adjusting. So, two operations of adjusting focus and swinging focus can be achieved only by applying suitable voltage signals over each subelectrode. However, to successfully achieve a dynamic compensation of the aberrated wavefront measured so as to minimize target image distortion, hundreds of LC microlenses are needed for measuring and reconstructing wavefront corresponding to realtime image acquired. This will lead to a problem: a large number of conductive wires cannot be effectively arranged and connected to the LC microlens. In this paper, a LCMLA based on an electrically scanning approach is proposed. An "active matrix" for applying voltage signal over different structural unit is used so as to realize a active control of wavefront measurement and correction corresponding to a target image.
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