High-resolution and wide-field microscopic imaging with a monolithic meta-doublet under annular illumination

Jiacheng Sun; Wenjing Shen; Junyi Wang; Rongtao Yu; Jian Li; Chunyu Huang; Xin Ye; Zhaoyu Cheng; Jiefu Yu; Peng Wang; Chen Chen; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.4.046006

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 046006(2025)

High-resolution and wide-field microscopic imaging with a monolithic meta-doublet under annular illumination

Jiacheng Sun1...2,†, Wenjing Shen1, Junyi Wang1,2, Rongtao Yu1,2, Jian Li1, Chunyu Huang1, Xin Ye1, Zhaoyu Cheng2, Jiefu Yu2, Peng Wang2, Chen Chen1,*, Shining Zhu1 and Tao Li1,* |Show fewer author(s)

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

²MetaCV Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China

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