Combination of numerous fine-electrodes with an electro-optic (E-O) material is
much expected to be various optoelectronic key-devices.' However, since a metallic
opaque electrode has usually been used in most of the devices reported,2' the
loss of intensity due to the electrode portion is serious disadvantage. In addition,
the devices with the opaque electrode are not suitable to focusing or defocusing
function such as a lens. In the present paper proposed are two types of E-O lenses,
i.e., an E-O zoom lens and a Fresnel-zone plate (FZP) E-O lens which consist of
numerous transparent fine-electrodes on a flat E-O material, and are experimentally
demonstrated by composing the E-O lenses with the ITO transparent electrodes on a
PL7T (9/65/35) ceramic plate, in comparison with theoretical calculations.
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