Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing

Guang Hui Yuan; Edward TF Rogers; Nikolay I Zheludev

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.36

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Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing

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- Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 3, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, The Photonic Institute, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
  2.Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  3.Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
- Author bio：
  
  GH Yuan, Email: ghyuan@ntu.edu.sg
  NI Zheludev, Email: nzheludev@ntu.edu.sg
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.36
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- Published：2017-09，
  
  Published Online：07 March 2017，
  
  Received：20 December 2016，
  
  Revised：02 March 2017，
  
  Accepted：05 March 2017
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Yuan, G. H., Rogers, E. T. F. & Zheludev, N. I. Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17036 (2017).
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Yuan, G. H., Rogers, E. T. F. & Zheludev, N. I. Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17036 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.36.

摘要

Abstract

Lenses are crucial to light-enabled technologies. Conventional lenses have been perfected to achieve near-diffraction-limited resolution and minimal chromatic aberrations. However

such lenses are bulky and cannot focus light into a hotspot smaller than a half-wavelength of light. Pupil filters

initially suggested by Toraldo di Francia

can overcome the resolution constraints of conventional lenses but are not intrinsically chromatically corrected. Here we report single-element planar lenses that not only deliver sub-wavelength focusing

thus beating the diffraction limit of conventional refractive lenses

but also focus light of different colors into the same hotspot. Using the principle of super-oscillations

we designed and fabricated a range of binary dielectric and metallic lenses for visible and infrared parts of the spectrum that are manufactured on silicon wafers

silica substrates and optical fiber tips. Such low-cost

compact lenses could be useful in mobile devices

data storage

surveillance

robotics

space applications

imaging

manufacturing with light and spatially resolved nonlinear microscopies.

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Keywords

achromaticsuper-oscillationsuper-resolution

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