The race for miniature color cameras using flat meta-optics has rapidly developed the end-to-
end design framework using neural networks. Although a large body of work has shown the …

Deep optical optimization has recently emerged as a new paradigm for designing
computational imaging systems using only the output image as the objective. However, it …

Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) has received unprecedented
attention as a future water and energy platform. However, the water productivity of SAWH …

Evolving demands for compact, light-weight, and versatile optical systems across various
industries require the facile integration of planar diffractive optics. For the manufacturing of …

The joint design of the optical system and the downstream algorithm is a challenging and
promising task. Due to the demand for balancing the global optima of imaging systems and …

In lens-based display systems, lens aberrations and depth of field (DoF) limitation often lead
to blurring and distortion of reconstructed images; Meanwhile, expanding the display DoF …

With the development of computational imaging, the integration of optical system design and
digital algorithms has made more imaging tasks easier to perform. Wavefront coding (WFC) …

Phase retrieval in optical imaging refers to the recovery of a complex signal from phaseless
data acquired in the form of its diffraction patterns. These patterns are acquired through a …

Hybrid refractive-diffractive lenses combine the light efficiency of refractive lenses with the
information encoding power of diffractive optical elements (DOE), showing great potential as …

This paper proposes a method that combines the effective area method and the oblique
factors to analyze and design dual-layer diffractive optical elements at large incident angles …