Solar-blind ultraviolet imaging with a diamond metalens

Wen-Jie Dou; Xun Yang; Cheng-Long Zheng; Hua-Ping Zang; Pei-Nan Ni; Yi-Yang Xie; Pei-Pei Chen; Chong-Xin Shan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.555036

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 1452(2025)

Solar-blind ultraviolet imaging with a diamond metalens

Wen-Jie Dou^1、†, Xun Yang^1、†, Cheng-Long Zheng¹, Hua-Ping Zang¹, Pei-Nan Ni^1、*, Yi-Yang Xie^2,4, Pei-Pei Chen³, and Chong-Xin Shan^1,5

Author Affiliations

¹Henan Key Laboratory of Diamond Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuits, Ministry of Education, School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China

²Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

³Nanofabrication Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Materials and Devices, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China

⁴e-mail: xieyiyang@bjut.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: cxshan@zzu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Jan. 17, 2025

Accepted: Mar. 4, 2025

Published Online: May. 14, 2025

The Author Email: Pei-Nan Ni (nipeinan@zzu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.555036

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.555036

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