Abstract
Chromatic aberrations are a primary limiting factor in thin, high-quality imaging systems. Recent advances in nanoscale manufacturing, however, have enabled the creation of metasurfaces: ultra-thin optical components with sub-wavelength features that can locally manipulate the wavefront phase. Meanwhile, there has been renewed interest in GRadient-INdex (GRIN) lenses due to the extended degrees of design freedom they offer. When combined, these two technologies can provide unparalleled imaging system performance while realizing drastic reductions in size, weight, and power. Through paraxial theory and full ray tracing we produce a lens singlet that can achieve three-color (apochromatic) correction by employing a metasurface-augmented GRIN. This apochromatic singlet has the potential for application in high-quality optical systems.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 2334-2536/18/020099-04 |
Pages (from-to) | 99-102 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Optica |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 20 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics