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Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives

Optics 2017-06-13 v3

Abstract

The so-called "flat optics" that shapes the phase of an incident wave in free space through subwavelength structures has a venerable history. In that domain, achieving high efficiency at large deflection angles requires a low absorption material, a suitable technological process, as well as suitably engineered nanostructures that makes them electromagnetically independent despite the small spacing required to spatially sample a rapidly varying phase.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02507,
  title  = {Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives},
  author = {Philippe Lalanne and Pierre Chavel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02507},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table