Metasurface hybrid lens inverse design with diffractive/refractive co-optimization

Ko-Han Shih; C. Kyle Renshaw

doi:10.1117/12.2663205

14 June 2023 Metasurface hybrid lens inverse design with diffractive/refractive co-optimization

Ko-Han Shih, C. Kyle Renshaw

Proceedings Volume 12530, Advanced Optics for Imaging Applications: UV through LWIR VIII; 125300K (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2663205
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We combine metasurface optics and refractive optics to form hybrid lenses, where the refractive elements provide the optical power but metasurfaces are used to correct aberrations. We introduce an algorithm to optimize layout of metasurfaces (MSs) in hybrid lens designs where the MSs can be located anywhere in the optical train. This algorithm uses a ray-based, scalar field method to propagate through refractive optics with speed comparable to Fourier methods, which are limited to propagation between planar surfaces. This method supports propagation of real optical fields and derived adjoint fields, both forward and backward, which enables inverse design with adjoint gradient methods to optimize the MS nanostructured layout. In contrast to previous image-space optimizations which neatly partition the problem into separate ray-optics and wave-optics domains, this algorithm provides the freedom to arbitrarily interleave metasurface optics with refractive optics during hybrid lens design. A hybrid lens design example in mid-wave infrared is presented to demonstrate this framework.

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Ko-Han Shih and C. Kyle Renshaw "Metasurface hybrid lens inverse design with diffractive/refractive co-optimization", Proc. SPIE 12530, Advanced Optics for Imaging Applications: UV through LWIR VIII, 125300K (14 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2663205

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