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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Materials Science

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  • Metasurfaces offer advanced light manipulation via planar nanostructures.
  • Transmissive metasurfaces provide full phase control but face bandwidth limitations.
  • Existing multiwavelength metasurfaces often compromise efficiency, imaging quality, or size.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and demonstrate a novel platform for multiwavelength metasurface operation.
  • To overcome the critical bandwidth limitations of current metasurface technologies.
  • To enable efficient and high-quality optical performance across multiple wavelengths.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing tightly spaced multilayer dielectric metasurfaces.
  • Designing and fabricating a multiwavelength metalens doublet.
  • Characterizing focusing efficiencies at different wavelengths (1180 nm and 1680 nm).

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated a multiwavelength metalens doublet with numerical aperture (NA) of 0.42.
  • Achieved focusing efficiencies of 38% at 1180 nm and 52% at 1680 nm.
  • Extended the approach to three-wavelength metalenses and spectral splitters.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed multilayer dielectric metasurface platform enables efficient multiwavelength operation.
  • This approach overcomes previous limitations in metasurface bandwidth and performance.
  • Potential applications include fluorescent microscopy, digital imaging, and color routing.