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Metasurface lens

Shrinking the camera size

A miniaturized camera has been developed by integrating a planar metasurface lens doublet with a CMOS image sensor. The metasurface lens doublet corrects the monochromatic aberration and thus delivers nearly diffraction-limited image quality over a wide field of view.

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Figure 1: Imaging with a miniaturized camera containing a monochromatically corrected planar metasurface lens.

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Sun, C. Shrinking the camera size. Nature Mater 16, 11–12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4833

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