Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization

Xingjian Xiao; Yunwei Zhao; Xin Ye; Chen Chen; Xinmou Lu; Yansen Rong; Junhong Deng; Guixin Li; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-01024-y

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Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization

Original Articles

- Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 12, Pages: 2900-2908(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulations, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
  2.Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- Author bio：
  
  Guixin Li (ligx@sustech.edu.cn)
  Tao Li (taoli@nju.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-01024-y
  CLC：
- Published：31 December 2022，
  
  Published Online：11 November 2022，
  
  Received：30 August 2022，
  
  Revised：18 October 2022，
  
  Accepted：24 October 2022
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Xiao, X. J. et al. Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2900-2908 (2022).
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Xiao, X. J. et al. Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2900-2908 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-01024-y.

摘要

Abstract

Flat lenses

including metalens and diffractive lens

have attracted increasing attention due to their ability to miniaturize the imaging devices. However

realizing a large scale achromatic flat lens with high performance still remains a big challenge. Here

we developed a new framework in designing achromatic multi-level diffractive lenses by light coherence optimization

which enables the implementation of large-scale flat lenses under non-ideal conditions. As results

a series achromatic polymer lenses with diameter from 1 to 10 mm are successfully designed and fabricated. The subsequent optical characterizations substantially validate our theoretical framework and show relatively good performance of the centimeter-scale achromatic multi-level diffractive lenses with a super broad bandwidth in optical wavelengths (400–1100 nm). After comparing with conventional refractive lens

this achromatic lens shows significant advantages in white-light imaging performance

implying a new strategy in developing practical planar optical devices.

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