A focus-switchable liquid crystal (LC) lens made of polymer-LC composite was fabricated by a molding technique. The focus-switchable LC lens fabricated had a diameter of 6.0 mm and center thickness of 67 pm. The focal length obtained was about 48 cm. The lens showed good optical properties and strong polarization dependence. Its focus can be switched either by applying a low driving voltage (about 3 V) or by changing the polarization of the incident light. Such focus-switchable polymer-LC lens fabricated by this kind of technique is potentially useful in many optical systems, such as optical tweezers, machine vision, eye glasses. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.