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The correction of multiple aberrations in an optical system requires different optical elements, which increases its cost and complexity. Metasurfaces hold great promise to providing new functionality for miniaturized and low-cost optical…

We tackle the challenge of robust, in-the-wild imaging using ultra-thin nanophotonic metalens cameras. Meta-lenses, composed of planar arrays of nanoscale scatterers, promise dramatic reductions in size and weight compared to conventional…

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Metalenses offer significant potential for ultra-compact computational imaging but face challenges from complex optical degradation and computational restoration difficulties. Existing methods typically rely on precise optical calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jianing Zhang , Jiayi Zhu , Feiyu Ji , Xiaokang Yang , Xiaoyun Yuan

Wide-angle optical functionality is crucial for implementation of advanced imaging and image projection devices. Conventionally, wide-angle operation is attained by complicated assembly of multiple optical elements. Recent advances in…

Metalenses offer a path toward creating ultra-thin optical systems, but they inherently suffer from severe, spatially varying optical aberrations, especially chromatic aberration, which makes image reconstruction a significant challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Harshana Weligampola , Yuanrui Chen , Weiheng Tang , Qi Guo , Stanley H. Chan

Metalenses, advanced nanostructured alternatives to conventional lenses, significantly enhance the compactness and functionality of optical systems. Despite progress in monochromatic applications, scaling metalenses to centimeter-sized…

Meta-optics are attracting intensive interest as alternatives to traditional optical systems comprising multiple lenses and diffractive elements. Among applications, single metalens imaging is highly attractive due to the potential for…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yunxi Dong , Bowen Zheng , Hang Li , Hong Tang , Yi Huang , Sensong An , Hualiang Zhang

Recent advances in metasurface lenses (metalenses) have shown great potential for opening a new era in compact imaging, photography, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) applications. However,…

Metalens, as the most promising and applicable emerging optical device, has long been constrained by the limited field of view (FOV). Recent studies employing phase engineering or multi-layer strategies have made some progress, but they all…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Feiyang Zhang , Guoxia Han , Yihan Tian , Yanbin Ma , Xianghua Yu , Xiaolong 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

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…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-09 Calvin M. Hooper , Sarah E. Bohndiek , Calum Williams

Metalenses, artificially engineered subwavelength nanostructures to focus light within ultrathin thickness, promise potential for a paradigm shift of conventional optical devices. However, the aperture sizes of metalenses are usually bound…

Conventional imaging systems comprise large and expensive optical components which successively mitigate aberrations. Metasurface optics offers a route to miniaturize imaging systems by replacing bulky components with flat and compact…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-13 Shane Colburn , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

Thanks to the compact design and multi-functional light-manipulation capabilities, reconfigurable metalenses, which consist of arrays of sub-wavelength meta-atoms, offer unique opportunities for advanced optical systems, from microscopy to…

Reconfigurable metasurfaces offer great promises to enhance photonics technology by combining integration with improved functionalities. Recently, reconfigurability in otherwise static metasurfaces has been achieved by modifying the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Adeel Afridi , Jan Gieseler , Nadine Meyer , Romain Quidant

Metalenses can achieve diffraction-limited focusing through localized phase manipulation of the incoming light beam. Because these structures are ultrathin, less than a wavelength, this has the potential of achieving ultrathin optical…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-29 Yongbo Deng , Ulrike Wallrabe , Yihui Wu , Jan G. Korvink

Metalenses, in order to compete with conventional bulk optics in commercial imaging systems, often require large field of view (FOV) and broadband operation simultaneously. However, strong chromatic and coma aberrations present in common…

The conventional lens's tunability drawback always restricts their application compared to the metasurface lens (metalens). On the other side, reconfigurable metalenses offer the benefits of ultrathin thickness and capable of tunability.…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ali Abdolali , Roya Kargar , Kasra Rouhi

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,…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-19 Shane Colburn , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar

Reconfigurable metalenses capable of large focal length tuning, fast response times, and high focusing efficiency while maintaining diffraction-limited operation are highly desirable for next-generation adaptive imaging systems. Phase…

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