A Miniature Meta-Optical System for Reconfigurable Wide-Angle Imaging and Polarization-Spectral Detection

Fei Zhang; Minghao Liao; Mingbo Pu; Yinghui Guo; Lianwei Chen; Xiong Li; Qiong He; Tongtong Kang; Xiaoliang Ma; Yuan Ke; Xiangang Luo

doi:10.1016/j.eng.2023.07.008

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Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4) : 67-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2023.07.008

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A Miniature Meta-Optical System for Reconfigurable Wide-Angle Imaging and Polarization-Spectral Detection

Fei Zhang^a^,^b^,^d^,^# ,
Minghao Liao^a^,^b^,^c^,^# ,
Mingbo Pu^a^,^b^,^c^,^d^,^* ,
Yinghui Guo^a^,^b^,^c^,^d ,
Lianwei Chen^a^,^b^,^c ,
Xiong Li^a^,^b^,^c ,
Qiong He^a^,^b ,
Tongtong Kang^a^,^b^,^d ,
Xiaoliang Ma^a^,^b^,^c ,
Yuan Ke^e ,
Xiangang Luo^a^,^b^,^c^,^d^,^*

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Wide-angle imaging and spectral detection play vital roles in tasks such as target tracking, object classification, and anti-camouflage. However, limited by their intrinsically different architectures, as determined by frequency dispersion requirements, their simultaneous implementation in a shared-aperture system is difficult. Here, we propose a novel concept to realize reconfigurable dual-mode detection based on electrical-control tunable metasurfaces. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, the simultaneous implementation of wide-angle imaging and polarization-spectral detection in a miniature shared-aperture meta-optical system is realized for the first time via the electrical control of cascaded catenary-like metasurfaces. The proposed system supports the imaging (spectral) resolution of approximately 27.8 line-pairs per millimeter (lp·mm⁻¹; ∼80 nm) for an imaging (spectral) mode from 8 to 14 μm. This system also bears a large field of view of about 70°, enabling multi-target recognition in both modes. This work may promote the miniaturization of multifunctional optical systems, including spectrometers and polarization imagers, and illustrates the potential industrial applications of meta-optics in biomedicine, security, space exploration, and more.

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Fei Zhang, Minghao Liao, Mingbo Pu, Yinghui Guo, Lianwei Chen, Xiong Li, Qiong He, Tongtong Kang, Xiaoliang Ma, Yuan Ke, Xiangang Luo. A Miniature Meta-Optical System for Reconfigurable Wide-Angle Imaging and Polarization-Spectral Detection. Engineering, 2024, 35(4): 67‒73 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2023.07.008

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