Design of an all-dielectric long-wave infrared wide-angle metalens

Optical metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of nano-scatterers that modify optical wavefronts at subwavelength spatial resolution. They achieve the effect of focusing through phase control under a subwavelength scale, and are called metalenses. They are poised to revolutionize optics by enabling complex low-cost systems. However, there are severe monochromatic aberrations in the metasurfaces. In this paper, the coma of the long-wave infrared optical system is eliminated through a single-layer metasurface. By changing the phase function, this metalens has a numerical aperture of 0.89, a focal length of 150 μm and a field of view of 120° (0.4@60 line pairs/mm) that enables diffraction-limited monochromatic imaging along the focal plane at a wavelength of 10.6 μm. The designed metasurface maintains a favorable value of the modulation transfer function at different angles. This equipment can be widely used in imaging and industrial processing.     

介质超透镜自动设计技术及软件研究

由于超透镜在光场相位调控、多功能复合、微纳集成等方面具备传统透镜无法比拟的优势,故其在许多领域具备极大的应用潜力。但是,超透镜的设计需要专业人员具备专业知识及丰富的经验,这使得非专业人员无法快速掌握,为此阻碍了超透镜的规模化制备。通过MATLAB和时域有限差分法(FDTD)的混合编程,研究了不依赖于预设物理模型的超透镜的设计过程,实现了介质超透镜的自动化设计。通过在MATLAB编写的软件界面上输入所需的超透镜参数,后台调用FDTD设计仿真程序来构建纳米结构,可以计算出结构的尺寸与相位和透过率的关系。根据所需的相位分布来构建超透镜,最后对超透镜进行数值模拟仿真及性能评估。所述的设计流程及软件能极大地方便非专业人员进行超透镜的设计。     

Temperature-responded tunable metalenses based on phase transition materials

Once the metalenses are fabricated, the functions of most metalenses are invariable. The tunability and reconfigurability are useful and cost-saving for metalenses in realistic applications. We demonstrate this tunability here via a novel hybrid metalens with the strategic placement of an ultra-thin VO₂ layer. The hybrid metalens is capable of dynamically modulating the focusing intensity of transmitted light at a wavelength of 1550 nm, and demonstrate a 42.28% focusing efficiency of the incident light and 70.01% modulation efficiency. The hybrid metalens' optothermal simulations show an optothermal conversion process of dynamic focusing, and a maximum laser density of 1.76×10³ W/cm² can be handled at an ambient temperature lower than 330 K. The hybrid metalens proposed in this work, a light-dose sensitive tunable smart metalens that can protect other instruments/systems or materials from being damaged, has its specific applications such as in anti-satellite blinding, bio-imaging, etc.