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12 May 2020 Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration
Zhixiong Shen, Shenghang Zhou, Xinan Li, Shijun Ge, Peng Chen, Wei Hu, Yanqing Lu
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Abstract

Overcoming chromatic aberrations is a vital concern in imaging systems in order to facilitate full-color and hyperspectral imaging. By contrast, large dispersion holds opportunities for spectroscopy and tomography. Combining both functions into a single component will significantly enhance its versatility. A strategy is proposed to delicately integrate two lenses with a static resonant phase and a switchable geometric phase separately. The former is a metasurface lens with a linear phase dispersion. The latter is composed of liquid crystals (LCs) with space-variant orientations with a phase profile that is frequency independent. By this means, a broadband achromatic focusing from 0.9 to 1.4 THz is revealed. When a saturated bias is applied on LCs, the geometric phase modulation vanishes, leaving only the resonant phase of the metalens. Correspondingly, the device changes from achromatic to dispersive. Furthermore, a metadeflector with tunable dispersion is demonstrated to verify the universality of the proposed method. Our work may pave a way toward active metaoptics, promoting various imaging applications.

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Zhixiong Shen, Shenghang Zhou, Xinan Li, Shijun Ge, Peng Chen, Wei Hu, and Yanqing Lu "Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration," Advanced Photonics 2(3), 036002 (12 May 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036002
Received: 3 April 2020; Accepted: 29 April 2020; Published: 12 May 2020
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Cited by 80 scholarly publications and 9 patents.
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KEYWORDS
Terahertz radiation

Liquid crystals

Chromatic aberrations

Silicon

Phase shift keying

Dispersion

Dielectrics

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