The magic of optics—an overview of recent advanced terahertz diffractive optical elements

A Siemion - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Diffractive optical elements are well known for being not only flat but also lightweight, and
are characterised by low attenuation. In different spectral ranges, they provide better …

Imaging with flat optics: metalenses or diffractive lenses?

S Banerji, M Meem, A Majumder, FG Vasquez… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Recently, there has been an explosion of interest in metalenses for imaging. The interest is
primarily based on their subwavelength thicknesses. Diffractive gratings have been used as …

Design of task-specific optical systems using broadband diffractive neural networks

Y Luo, D Mengu, NT Yardimci, Y Rivenson… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Deep learning has been transformative in many fields, motivating the emergence of various
optical computing architectures. Diffractive optical network is a recently introduced optical …

Learned rotationally symmetric diffractive achromat for full-spectrum computational imaging

X Dun, H Ikoma, G Wetzstein, Z Wang, X Cheng… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Diffractive achromats (DAs) promise ultra-thin and light-weight form factors for full-color
computational imaging systems. However, designing DAs with the optimal optical transfer …

Recent advances in planar optics-based glasses-free 3D displays

J Hua, W Qiao, L Chen - Frontiers in Nanotechnology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glasses-free three-dimensional (3D) displays are one of the technologies that will redefine
human-computer interfaces. However, many geometric optics-based 3D displays suffer from …

Extreme-depth-of-focus imaging with a flat lens

S Banerji, M Meem, A Majumder, B Sensale-Rodriguez… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A lens performs an approximately one-to-one mapping from the object to the image plane.
This mapping in the image plane is maintained within a depth of field (or referred to as depth …

Broadband lightweight flat lenses for long-wave infrared imaging

M Meem, S Banerji, A Majumder… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We experimentally demonstrate imaging in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectral band (8
μm to 12 μm) using a single polymer flat lens based upon multilevel diffractive optics. The …

[HTML][HTML] 面向柔性光电子器件的微纳光制造关键技术与应用

陈林森, 乔文, 叶燕, 刘艳花, 浦东林 - Acta Optica Sinica, 2021 - opticsjournal.net
摘要柔性光电子器件对微纳制造技术提出了更高, 更多维度的要求, 包括大幅面, 表面复杂结构,
跨尺度, 透明或柔性基底等. 主要介绍基于相位元件调制的3D 激光直写技术和紫外连续变频光刻 …

[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacture of photonic components for the terahertz band

E Castro-Camus, M Koch… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this Perspective contribution, we present a brief review of the literature available on
optical devices for terahertz frequencies, followed by an analysis of the challenges faced by …

Imaging from the visible to the longwave infrared wavelengths via an inverse-designed flat lens

M Meem, A Majumder, S Banerji, JC Garcia… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
It is generally assumed that correcting chromatic aberrations in imaging requires multiple
optical elements. Here, we show that by allowing the phase in the image plane to be a free …