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Achieving simultaneous broadband achromatic focusing and a wide field of view remains a significant challenge for metalenses. In this work, we begin with a quadratic phase profile, enabling full field-of-view designs, and apply dispersion…

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Dynamic wavefront shaping with optical metasurfaces has presented a major challenge and inspired a large number of highly elaborate solutions. Here, we experimentally demonstrate thermo-optically reconfigurable, nonlocal metasurfaces using…

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Passive optical elements can play key roles in photonic applications such as plasmonic integrated circuits. Here we experimentally demonstrate passive gap-plasmon focusing and routing in two-dimensions. This is accomplished using a high…

Metasurfaces have provided new opportunities for the realization of flat lenses, among which tunable metalenses have garnered considerable attention due to their flexible functionalities. In this paper, we present a continuously tunable…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-30 Yilong Cui , Liang Hou , Kenan Guo , Yue Jiang , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao , Tingting Liu

Metalens as one of the most popular applications of emmerging optical metasurfaces has raised widspread interest recently. With nano structures fully controlling phase, polarization and transmission, metalens has achieved comparable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Mao Ye , Vishva Ray , Dachuan Wu , Yasha Yi

As an essential module of optical systems, varifocal lens usually consists of multiple mechanically moving lenses along the optical axis. The recent development of metasurfaces with tunable functionalities holds the promise of miniaturizing…

Metalenses are attracting a large interest for the implementation of complex optical functionalities in planar and compact devices. However, chromatic and off-axis aberrations remain standing challenges. Here, we experimentally investigate…

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Optics · Physics 2025-03-13 Xu Mao , Gang Yu , Hongsheng Ding , Yongmei Zhao , Chaowei Si , Fuhua Yang , Xiaodong Wang

Varifocal lenses are essential components of dynamic optical systems with applications in photography, mixed reality, and microscopy. Metasurface optics has strong potential for creating tunable flat optics. Existing tunable metalenses,…

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Metalenses are ultrathin optical devices designed to replicate behavior of conventional refractive lenses, or lens arrays, utilizing nanoscale resonant structures to redirect incident light. These are often comprised of discrete meta-atoms…

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A perfect lens with unlimited resolution has always posed a challenge to both theoretical and experimental physicists. Recent developments in optical meta-materials promise an attractive approach towards perfect lenses using negative…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jianjun Cao , Yuanlin Zheng , Yaming Feng , Xianfeng Chen , Wenjie Wan

Tunable metasurfaces provide a compact and efficient strategy for optical components that require active wavefront shaping. Varifocal metalens is one of the most important applications. However, the existing tunable metalens rarely serves…