A tunable eye vision correcting Liquid Crystal optical device for use as an eye lens replacement or augmentation device to enhance focusing an unpolarized incident light field on an eye retina, the tunable LC optical device having an optical axis substantially coextensive with an eye optical axis, preferably wherein said LC lens is encapsulated within an ocular lens and more preferably is encapsulated within an intraocular implantable lens, comprising a Liquid Crystal lens for use in convergence space a distance away from an image surface to project an incident image onto said image surface, said LC lens comprising: a pair of LC cells for modulating said incident light passing therethrough, each LC cell being birefringent splitting incident light into orthogonal light polarizations, said LC lens having an optical axis orthogonal to said light polarizations, each LC layer offsetting transversally non-uniform phase delay modulated light by a corresponding offset distance from said optical axis, wherein each LC cell is configured to redirect a corresponding offset center ray onto an optical axis at said image surface to compensate for said birefringence-dependent offsets; and wherein said pair of LC cells comprise: four layers of liquid crystal, each having at least one alignment surface layer for imparting a pre-tilt angle to a corresponding LC layer predominant director, said director of each layer being opposed to a director of one of the other layers and orthogonal to a director of two of the other layers, wherein a birefringence dependent displacement caused by each one of said layers being countered by a birefringence dependent displacement caused by another of said layers having an opposed director, and wherein each pair LC layers having opposed directors is one of: a pair of LC layers each sandwiched by oppositely oriented alignment layers and a pair of membrane separated LC layers sandwiched by a single pair of oppositely oriented alignment layers. a pair of LC cells for modulating said incident light passing therethrough, each LC cell being birefringent splitting incident light into orthogonal light polarizations, said LC lens having an optical axis orthogonal to said light polarizations, each LC layer offsetting transversally non-uniform phase delay modulated light by a corresponding offset distance from said optical axis, wherein each LC cell is configured to redirect a corresponding offset center ray onto an optical axis at said image surface to compensate for said birefringence-dependent offsets; and wherein said pair of LC cells comprise: four layers of liquid crystal, each having at least one alignment surface layer for imparting a pre-tilt angle to a corresponding LC layer predominant director, said director of each layer being opposed to a director of one of the other layers and orthogonal to a director of two of the other layers, wherein a birefringence dependent displacement caused by each one of said layers being countered by a birefringence dependent displacement caused by another of said layers having an opposed director, and wherein each pair LC layers having opposed directors is one of: a pair of LC layers each sandwiched by oppositely oriented alignment layers and a pair of membrane separated LC layers sandwiched by a single pair of oppositely oriented alignment layers. four layers of liquid crystal, each having at least one alignment surface layer for imparting a pre-tilt angle to a corresponding LC layer predominant director, said director of each layer being opposed to a director of one of the other layers and orthogonal to a director of two of the other layers, wherein a birefringence dependent displacement caused by each one of said layers being countered by a birefringence dependent displacement caused by another of said layers having an opposed director, and wherein each pair LC layers having opposed directors is one of: a pair of LC layers each sandwiched by oppositely oriented alignment layers and a pair of membrane separated LC layers sandwiched by a single pair of oppositely oriented alignment layers. a pair of LC layers each sandwiched by oppositely oriented alignment layers and a pair of membrane separated LC layers sandwiched by a single pair of oppositely oriented alignment layers.