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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 5947-5958Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.417036
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61675207, 61675208, 61822511]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2019371]
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In this article, a single-layer broadband achromatic metasurface was proposed to achieve sub-diffraction focusing in the visible range. It is capable of generating sub-diffraction focal spots under left-handed circularly polarized incident light with arbitrary wavelength at the same focal plane, showing promising potentials in various applications.
Conventional achromatic optical systems are matured to achieve effective chromatic aberration correction and diffraction-limited resolution by the multiple bulky lenses. The emergence of the super-oscillation phenomenon provides an effective method for non-invasive far-field super-resolution imaging. Nevertheless, most super-oscillatory lenses are significantly restricted by the chromatic aberration due to the reliance on delicate interference; on the other hand, most achromatic lenses cannot break the diffraction limit. In this article, a single-layer broadband achromatic metasurface comprising sub-wavelength anisotropic nanostructures has been proposed to achieve sub-diffraction focusing with a focal length of f=60 mu m and a diameter of 20 mu m in the visible ranging from 400 nm to 700 nm, which are capable of generating sub-diffraction focal spots under the left-handed circularly polarized incident light with arbitrary wavelength in the working bandwidth at the same focal plane. This method may find promising potentials in various applications such as super-resolution color imaging, light field cameras, and machine vision. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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