Designing large, high-efficiency, high-numerical-aperture, transmissive meta-lenses for visible light
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- 1 March 2016
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 24 (5), 5110-5124
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.24.005110
Abstract
A metasurface lens (meta-lens) bends light using nanostructures on a flat surface. Macroscopic meta-lenses (mm- to cm-scale diameter) have been quite difficult to simulate and optimize, due to the large area, the lack of periodicity, and the billions of adjustable parameters. We describe a method for designing a large-area meta-lens that allows not only prediction of the efficiency and far-field, but also optimization of the shape and position of each individual nanostructure, with a computational cost that is almost independent of the lens size. As examples, we design three large NA = 0.94 meta-lenses: One with 79% predicted efficiency for yellow light, one with dichroic properties, and one broadband lens. All have a minimum feature size of 100nm.Keywords
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- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Draper) (SC001-0000000827)
- Osram (A26138)
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