Abstract
A conventional optical zoom system is bulky, expensive, and complicated for real-time adjustment. Recent progress in metasurface research has provided a new solution to achieve innovative compact optical systems. In this Letter, we propose a highly integrated step-zoom lens with dual field of view (FOV) based on double-sided metasurfaces. With silicon nanobrick arrays of spatially varying orientations sitting on both sides of a transparent substrate, this ultrathin step-zoom metalens can be designed to focus an incident circular polarized beam with handedness-dependent FOVs without varying the focal plane, which is important for practical applications. The proposed dual FOV step-zoom metalens, with advantages such as ultracompactness, flexibility, and replicability, can find applications in fields that require ultracompact zoom imaging and beam focusing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1261-1264 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 7 |
Early online date | 22 Mar 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2017 |