Cascaded chiral birefringent media enabled planar lens with programable chromatic aberration

Dewei Zhang; Chun-Ting Xu; Quan-Ming Chen; Han Cao; Hong-Guan Yu; Qing-Gui Tan; Yan-qing Lu; Wei Hu

doi:10.1186/s43074-024-00132-9

PhotoniX, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 17(2024)

Cascaded chiral birefringent media enabled planar lens with programable chromatic aberration

Dewei Zhang¹, Chun-Ting Xu^1、*, Quan-Ming Chen¹, Han Cao¹, Hong-Guan Yu¹, Qing-Gui Tan², Yan-qing Lu^1、**, and Wei Hu^1、***

Author Affiliations

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

²National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Microwave, China Academy of Space Technology, Xi‘an, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Jan. 4, 2024

Accepted: Apr. 22, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

The Author Email: Chun-Ting Xu (xuchunting@nju.edu.cn), Yan-qing Lu (yqlu@nju.edu.cn), Wei Hu (huwei@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1186/s43074-024-00132-9

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