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Miniaturized photodetectors are becoming increasingly sought-after components for a range of next generation technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, integrated wearable devices, or gadgets embedded in the Internet of Things. A major…

It is generally assumed that correcting chromatic aberrations in imaging requires optical elements. Here, we show that by allowing the phase in the image plane to be a free parameter, it is possible to correct chromatic variation of focal…

Dielectric metasurfaces are two-dimensional structures composed of nano-scatterers that manipulate phase and polarization of optical waves with subwavelength spatial resolution, enabling ultra-thin components for free-space optics. While…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-26 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

We design and characterize phase-modulated, ultra-compact, silicon-based axilens devices that combine efficient point focusing and grating selectivity within scalable 4-level phase mask configurations. The proposed designs are polarization…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-20 Wesley A. Britton , Yuyao Chen , Fabrizio Sgrignuoli , Luca Dal Negro

Metal-dielectric layered stacks for imaging with sub-wavelength resolution are regarded as linear isoplanatic systems - a concept popular in Fourier Optics and in scalar diffraction theory. In this context, a layered flat lens is a…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-21 Rafal Kotynski

We design and characterize a novel axilens-based diffractive optics platform that flexibly combines efficient point focusing and grating selectivity and is compatible with scalable top-down fabrication based on a 4-level phase mask…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yuyao Chen , Wesley A. Britton , Luca Dal Negro

Lenses are crucial to light-enabled technologies. Conventional lenses have been perfected to achieve near-diffraction-limited resolution and minimal chromatic aberrations. However, such lenses are bulky and cannot focus light into a hotspot…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-25 Guang Hui Yuan , Edward T. F. Rogers , Nikolay I. Zheludev

We propose and numerically demonstrate a technique for subwavelength imaging based on a metal-dielectric multilayer hyperlens designed in such a way that only the large-wavevector waves are transmitted while all propagating waves from the…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Taavi Repän , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Sergei V. Zhukovsky

It is generally thought that correcting chromatic aberrations in imaging requires multiple surfaces. Here, we show that by allowing the phase in the image plane of a flat lens to be a free parameter, it is possible to correct chromatic…

We demonstrate a high-NA (0.88), ultra-low-f-number (f/0.2714), multi-wavelength (480nm, 550nm and 650nm) multilevel diffractive MicroLens Array (MLA) using inverse design. Each microlens in the array is close-packed with diameter of 70…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-18 Tina M. Hayward , Robert Stewart , Rajesh Menon , Apratim Majumder

The question is considered about possibility of overcoming diffraction limit at device, named superlens. This device is a flat slab, executed from material with index of refraction n,equal n=-1. It is shown, what this device really can…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Veselago

Diffraction is a fundamental property of light propagation. Owing to this phenomenon,light diffracts out in all directions when it passes through a subwavelength slit.This imposes a fundamental limit on the transverse size of a light beam…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-11 S. V. Kukhlevsky , M. Mechler

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…

We experimentally demonstrate ultrathin flat lenses with a thickness of 7 {\AA}, which corresponds to the fundamental physical limit of the thickness of the material, is fabricated in a large area, monolayer, CVD-prepared tungsten…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Han Lin , Zai-Quan Xu , Chengwei Qiu , Baohua Jia , Qiaoliang Bao

Thin structured surfaces allow flexible control over propagation of electromagnetic waves. Focusing and polarization state analysis are among functions, required for effective manipulation of radiation. Here a polarization sensitive Fresnel…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Hen Markovich , Dmitrii Filonov , Ivan Shishkin , Pavel Ginzburg

In this paper, we show by experiment that by covering a thin flat nonlinear lens on the sources, the sub-diffraction-limit observation can be achieved by measuring either the near-field distribution or the far-field radiation of the sources…

Far-field characterization of small objects is severely constrained by the diffraction limit. Existing tools achieving sub-diffraction resolution often utilize point-by-point image reconstruction via scanning or labelling. Here, we present…

We propose a method for designing multifocal diffractive lenses generating prescribed sets of foci with fixed positions at several different wavelengths. The method is based on minimizing the difference between the complex amplitudes of the…

We demonstrate a compact (40 ${\mu}$m $\times$ 260 ${\mu}$m) spectrometer based on multimode interference aided by scattering of light from random SiO$_2$-filled hole arrays on a silicon-on-insulator platform. We characterize the…

In the recent years, metasurfaces, being flat and lightweight, have been designed to replace bulky optical components with various functions. We demonstrate a monolithic Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) integrated with a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Tapashree Roy , Shuyan Zhang , Il Woong Jung , Mariano Troccoli , Federico Capasso , Daniel Lopez