Cascaded chiral birefringent media enabled planar lens with programable chromatic aberration  

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

机构地区：[1]National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation,College of Engineering and Applied Sciences,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China [2]National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Microwave,China Academy of Space Technology,Xi‘an,China

出　　处：《PhotoniX》2024年第1期411-423,共13页智汇光学(英文)

基　　金：supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFA1203703);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(62035008);the Stable Support Fund of State Administration Science Technology and Industry for National Defense(HTKJ2022KL504003);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(021314380233).

摘　　要：Wavefront control is the fundamental requirement in optical informatics.Planar optics have drawn intensive attention due to the merits of compactness and light weight.However,it remains a challenge to freely manipulate the dispersion,hindering practical applications,especially in imaging.Here,we propose the concept of frequencysynthesized phase engineering to solve this problem.A phasefront-frequency matrix is properly designed to encode different spatial phases to separate frequencies,thus makes arbitrary dispersion tailoring and even frequency-separated functionalization possible.The periodically rotated director endows cholesteric liquid crystal with a spin and frequency selective reflection.Moreover,via presetting the local initial orientation of liquid crystal,geometric phase is encoded to the reflected light.We verify the proposed strategy by cascading the chiral anisotropic optical media of specifically designed helical pitches and initial director orientations.By this means,planar lenses with RGB achromatic,enhanced chromatic aberration and color routing properties are demonstrated.Inch-sized and high-efficient lenses are fabricated with low crosstalk among colors.It releases the freedom of dispersion control of planar optics,and even enables frequency decoupled phase modulations.This work brings new insights to functional planar optics and may upgrade the performance of existing optical apparatuses.

关 键 词：Liquid crystals Planar lens Dispersion programmable Spatial light modulation 

分 类 号：TN2[电子电信—物理电子学]