Ultra-broadband achromaticity of metalens with low-relative phase enabled by wide-band fusion

Abstract

Metalenses have a high design degree of freedom in controlling the light field and excellent performance in chromatic aberration elimination. However, in designing ultra-broadband achromatic metalenses, integrating multiple types of unit structures is necessary to compensate for phase differences caused by different incident wavelengths. Here, we propose an ultra-broadband achromatic metalens composed only of a single type of square nano-pillar. which controls the entire operating band by utilizing three wide-band fusions, and have characteristics depending on the phase coverage and relative phase. In the operational range of 2–5 μm, the achromatic metalens demonstrates a maximum focal shift of 2.1 μm. The average focal shift is 0.98 %, the average NA value is 0.35, with an average relative phase of 0.77π. The average transmittance and focus efficiency are 94.17 % and 58.7 %, respectively. This broad-spectrum fusion design strategy simplifies manufacturing complexity while maintaining high focusing efficiency and transmittance levels throughout the entire operational bandwidth. This design approach can improve image resolution and quality by minimizing chromatic aberration.