Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration

Zhixiong Shen; Shenghang Zhou; Xinan Li; Shijun Ge; Peng Chen; Wei Hu; Yanqing Lu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036002

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 2, Issue 3, 036002(2020)

Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration

Zhixiong Shen^1,2, Shenghang Zhou¹, Xinan Li¹, Shijun Ge^1,2, Peng Chen^1,2, Wei Hu^1,2、*, and Yanqing Lu^1、*

¹Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China

²Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, Institute for Smart Liquid Crystals, Changshu, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Apr. 3, 2020

Accepted: Apr. 29, 2020

Posted: May. 6, 2020

Published Online: May. 13, 2020

The Author Email: Hu Wei (huwei@nju.edu.cn), Lu Yanqing (yqlu@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036002

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