2014年10月23日 13:43
Three core technologies make adaptive zoom work for RAZAR:RAZAR は、単三電池 (AA batteries) × 2 本で駆動し、10,000 回のフォーカス チェンジをおこなうことが可能で、軍用ライフルの他、バードウォッチングなどのアウトドアシーンでの活用にも期待が寄せられている。
* A polymer lens core has two flexible, hermetically sealed membranes, which encapsulate a polymer fluid. The three-quarter-inch lenses are aligned with glass lenses to complete the optical design.
* A piezoelectric actuator electro-mechanically changes the flex of the lenses, achieving the correct position within 250 milliseconds to an accuracy of 100 nanometers, about 1/100th the thickness of a human hair. These actuators operate the way the muscles of the human eye change the curvature of the eye’s lens to focus far away or up close.
* Variable-focal length system design tools had to be developed from scratch, including analytical expressions and computer models that trace rays of light through optical systems.