Ultracompact Wide-FOV Near-infrared Camera with Wafer-level Manufactured Meta-Aspheric Lens
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| author | Chi, Chuirong Hou, Qichao Zhao, Guangyuan Song, Qiang Xu, Shengyuan Piao, Yanling Qin, Mengjie Hu, Yanan Chen, Chaoping Cai, Weiwei Chen, Yuan Yuan, Xin Duan, Huigao |
| author_facet | Chi, Chuirong Hou, Qichao Zhao, Guangyuan Song, Qiang Xu, Shengyuan Piao, Yanling Qin, Mengjie Hu, Yanan Chen, Chaoping Cai, Weiwei Chen, Yuan Yuan, Xin Duan, Huigao |
| contents | Overcoming the trade-off between wide field of view (FOV) and compactness remains a central challenge for integrating near-infrared (NIR) imaging into smartphones and AR glasses. Existing refractive NIR optics cannot simultaneously achieve ultra-wide angles above 100° and ultrathin total track length (TTL) below 5 mm, limiting their use in portable devices. Here, we present a wafer-level-manufactured meta-aspheric lens (MAL) that achieves a 101.5° FOV, 3.39 mm TTL, and F/1.64 aperture within a compact volume of 0.02 cubic centimeters. Unlike previous hybrid lenses with separate refractive and diffractive components, our MAL features a fully integrated structure, which enables a compact form factor. This integration also simplifies fabrication, allowing high-throughput production via micrometer-level precision alignment and bonding on a single wafer, with only one dicing step and no need for additional mechanical fixtures. Furthermore, the design process explicitly considers manufacturability and accurately models metalens dispersion, ensuring that experimental performance matches simulated results. We validate our MAL through both direct and computational imaging experiments. Despite its small form factor, our scalable MAL demonstrates strong NIR imaging performance in blood vessel imaging, eye tracking, and computational pixel super-resolution tasks. This scalable MAL technology establishes a new benchmark for high-performance, miniaturized NIR imaging and opens the door to next-generation smartphone and AR optical systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Ultracompact Wide-FOV Near-infrared Camera with Wafer-level Manufactured Meta-Aspheric Lens Chi, Chuirong Hou, Qichao Zhao, Guangyuan Song, Qiang Xu, Shengyuan Piao, Yanling Qin, Mengjie Hu, Yanan Chen, Chaoping Cai, Weiwei Chen, Yuan Yuan, Xin Duan, Huigao Optics Overcoming the trade-off between wide field of view (FOV) and compactness remains a central challenge for integrating near-infrared (NIR) imaging into smartphones and AR glasses. Existing refractive NIR optics cannot simultaneously achieve ultra-wide angles above 100° and ultrathin total track length (TTL) below 5 mm, limiting their use in portable devices. Here, we present a wafer-level-manufactured meta-aspheric lens (MAL) that achieves a 101.5° FOV, 3.39 mm TTL, and F/1.64 aperture within a compact volume of 0.02 cubic centimeters. Unlike previous hybrid lenses with separate refractive and diffractive components, our MAL features a fully integrated structure, which enables a compact form factor. This integration also simplifies fabrication, allowing high-throughput production via micrometer-level precision alignment and bonding on a single wafer, with only one dicing step and no need for additional mechanical fixtures. Furthermore, the design process explicitly considers manufacturability and accurately models metalens dispersion, ensuring that experimental performance matches simulated results. We validate our MAL through both direct and computational imaging experiments. Despite its small form factor, our scalable MAL demonstrates strong NIR imaging performance in blood vessel imaging, eye tracking, and computational pixel super-resolution tasks. This scalable MAL technology establishes a new benchmark for high-performance, miniaturized NIR imaging and opens the door to next-generation smartphone and AR optical systems. |
| title | Ultracompact Wide-FOV Near-infrared Camera with Wafer-level Manufactured Meta-Aspheric Lens |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23599 |