Near-infrared metalens empowered dual-mode high resolution and large FOV microscope

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Autori principali: Sun, Chuang, Pi, Hailong, Kiang, Kian Shen, Yan, Jize, Ou, Jun-Yu
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Sun, Chuang
Pi, Hailong
Kiang, Kian Shen
Yan, Jize
Ou, Jun-Yu
author_facet Sun, Chuang
Pi, Hailong
Kiang, Kian Shen
Yan, Jize
Ou, Jun-Yu
contents The spiral phase contrast microscope can clearly distinguish the morphological information of the low contrast objects (i.e., biological samples) because of the isotropic edge-enhancement effect, while the bright field microscope can image the overall morphology of amplitude objects. However, the imaging resolution, magnification, and field of view of conventional spiral phase contrast microscopes based on 4f filtering configuration are limited by the system's complexity. Here, we reported compact dual-mode microscopes working at near-infrared using the engineered metalens which can be tuned between the spiral phase contrast imaging and bright field imaging by polarization control. The metalens combines the high-resolution objective lens and polarization-controlled phase filter into a single-layer nanofins array. We demonstrated two infinity-corrected microscope systems to achieve subwavelength resolution (0.7 times of wavelength), large magnification (58X), and large field of view (600um times 800um). Unstained onion epidermal is imaged by the microscope to show the dual-mode imaging ability for the biological sample. Finally, a singlet dual-mode microscope system is demonstrated to show the edge-detection application for industrial standards. Our results could open new opportunities in applications of biological imaging, industrial machine vision, and semiconductor inspection.
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spellingShingle Near-infrared metalens empowered dual-mode high resolution and large FOV microscope
Sun, Chuang
Pi, Hailong
Kiang, Kian Shen
Yan, Jize
Ou, Jun-Yu
Optics
The spiral phase contrast microscope can clearly distinguish the morphological information of the low contrast objects (i.e., biological samples) because of the isotropic edge-enhancement effect, while the bright field microscope can image the overall morphology of amplitude objects. However, the imaging resolution, magnification, and field of view of conventional spiral phase contrast microscopes based on 4f filtering configuration are limited by the system's complexity. Here, we reported compact dual-mode microscopes working at near-infrared using the engineered metalens which can be tuned between the spiral phase contrast imaging and bright field imaging by polarization control. The metalens combines the high-resolution objective lens and polarization-controlled phase filter into a single-layer nanofins array. We demonstrated two infinity-corrected microscope systems to achieve subwavelength resolution (0.7 times of wavelength), large magnification (58X), and large field of view (600um times 800um). Unstained onion epidermal is imaged by the microscope to show the dual-mode imaging ability for the biological sample. Finally, a singlet dual-mode microscope system is demonstrated to show the edge-detection application for industrial standards. Our results could open new opportunities in applications of biological imaging, industrial machine vision, and semiconductor inspection.
title Near-infrared metalens empowered dual-mode high resolution and large FOV microscope
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11554