MWIR-LWIR dual-band imaging system with hybrid refractive-diffractive-metasurface optics for spatially separated focal planes

Zhiang Qian; Bingxia Wang; Bowei Xia; Zhihao He; Xinyi Lei; Jianbao Xu; Jierong Gu; Xiang Shen; Shuming Wang

doi:10.3788/COL202523.081105

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 081105(2025)

MWIR-LWIR dual-band imaging system with hybrid refractive-diffractive-metasurface optics for spatially separated focal planes

Zhiang Qian¹, Bingxia Wang^1、*, Bowei Xia², Zhihao He¹, Xinyi Lei¹, Jianbao Xu¹, Jierong Gu³, Xiang Shen^1、**, and Shuming Wang⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices, The Research Institute of Advanced Technologies, Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Detection Materials and Devices of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

²Laboratory of Intelligent Collaborative Computing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

³Ningbo Institute of Oceanography, Ningbo 315832, China

⁴National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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