Metalens with tilted structures for high-efficiency focusing at large-angle incidences

Yue Wang; Chen Chen; Shengjie Wu; Xin Ye; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.3788/COL202422.053601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 5, 053601(2024)

Metalens with tilted structures for high-efficiency focusing at large-angle incidences

Yue Wang, Chen Chen^*, Shengjie Wu, Xin Ye, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li^**

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulations, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

Received: Nov. 22, 2023

Accepted: Jan. 24, 2024

Published Online: May. 15, 2024

The Author Email: Chen Chen (chenchen2021@nju.edu.cn), Tao Li (taoli@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.053601

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.053601

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