Beating bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics
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| author | Fröch, Johannes E. Chakravarthula, Praneeth K. Sun, Jipeng Tseng, Ethan Colburn, Shane Zhan, Alan Miller, Forrest Wirth-Singh, Anna Tanguy, Quentin A. A. Han, Zheyi Böhringer, Karl F. Heide, Felix Majumdar, Arka |
| author_facet | Fröch, Johannes E. Chakravarthula, Praneeth K. Sun, Jipeng Tseng, Ethan Colburn, Shane Zhan, Alan Miller, Forrest Wirth-Singh, Anna Tanguy, Quentin A. A. Han, Zheyi Böhringer, Karl F. Heide, Felix Majumdar, Arka |
| contents | Flat optics have been proposed as an attractive approach for the implementation of new imaging and sensing modalities to replace and augment refractive optics. However, chromatic aberrations impose fundamental limitations on diffractive flat optics. As such, true broadband high-quality imaging has thus far been out of reach for low f-number, large aperture, flat optics. In this work, we overcome these intrinsic fundamental limitations, achieving broadband imaging in the visible wavelength range with a flat meta-optic, co-designed with computational reconstruction. We derive the necessary conditions for a broadband, 1 cm aperture, f/2 flat optic, with a diagonal field of view of 30° and an average system MTF contrast of 30% or larger for a spatial frequency of 100 lp/mm in the visible band (> 50 % for 70 lp/mm and below). Finally, we use a coaxial, dual-aperture system to train the broadband imaging meta-optic with a learned reconstruction method operating on pair-wise captured imaging data. Fundamentally, our work challenges the entrenched belief of the inability of capturing high-quality, full-color images using a single large aperture meta-optic. |
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| spellingShingle | Beating bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics Fröch, Johannes E. Chakravarthula, Praneeth K. Sun, Jipeng Tseng, Ethan Colburn, Shane Zhan, Alan Miller, Forrest Wirth-Singh, Anna Tanguy, Quentin A. A. Han, Zheyi Böhringer, Karl F. Heide, Felix Majumdar, Arka Optics Applied Physics Flat optics have been proposed as an attractive approach for the implementation of new imaging and sensing modalities to replace and augment refractive optics. However, chromatic aberrations impose fundamental limitations on diffractive flat optics. As such, true broadband high-quality imaging has thus far been out of reach for low f-number, large aperture, flat optics. In this work, we overcome these intrinsic fundamental limitations, achieving broadband imaging in the visible wavelength range with a flat meta-optic, co-designed with computational reconstruction. We derive the necessary conditions for a broadband, 1 cm aperture, f/2 flat optic, with a diagonal field of view of 30° and an average system MTF contrast of 30% or larger for a spatial frequency of 100 lp/mm in the visible band (> 50 % for 70 lp/mm and below). Finally, we use a coaxial, dual-aperture system to train the broadband imaging meta-optic with a learned reconstruction method operating on pair-wise captured imaging data. Fundamentally, our work challenges the entrenched belief of the inability of capturing high-quality, full-color images using a single large aperture meta-optic. |
| title | Beating bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06824 |