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In this article we disclose a method to fabricate a polarization independent dual frequency liquid crystal (DFLC) Fresnel lens (FL) with relatively high efficiency. The switchable FL is based on a patterned hybrid photo-aligned nematic (HPAN) DFLC cell assembled by one substrate providing the homeotropic anchoring and the other one providing the in-plane patterned alignment, with mutually orthogonal easy axis in the neighboring alignment domains, which has been prepared by means of two-step photo-alignment technique. Due to the electro-optical properties of dual frequency LC, the proposed HPAN DFLC FL, which manifests relatively high diffraction efficiency of 38.5% and low driving voltage, has the possibility of achieving a fast response by alternatively switching between high frequency and low frequency electric fields. Thus, with an excellent rewritable performance leading to the alternative focus/defocus switch, the HPAN DFLC FL would definitely be practical and promising in many modern devices.

Switchable Fresnel lens based on hybrid photo-aligned dual frequency nematic liquid crystal