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Jiamin Wu^1,2,3, Yuduo Guo^4,5, Chao Deng^1,3

¹Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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Area of Science:

Optical Engineering
Computational Imaging
Sensor Technology

Background:

Planar digital image sensors are widely used but limited by optical aberrations.
Scaling up pixel count does not inherently solve aberration issues in imaging systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an integrated scanning light-field imaging sensor (meta-imaging sensor) for high-speed, aberration-corrected 3D photography.
To overcome the limitations of conventional imaging systems by enabling flexible image synthesis and aberration correction without hardware modifications.

Main Methods:

The meta-imaging sensor captures 4D light-field distributions using a vibrating coded microlens array.
Post-processing enables the synthesis of complex-field-modulated images and aberration correction.

Main Results:

Achieved gigapixel-resolution photography with a single spherical lens, eliminating the need for data priors.
Demonstrated multisite aberration correction for ground-based telescopes under atmospheric turbulence without compromising acquisition speed.
Enabled simultaneous retrieval of high-density accurate depth maps.

Conclusions:

The meta-imaging sensor offers a universal solution for high-performance, cost-effective optical imaging and 3D photography.
This technology has significant potential for applications ranging from astronomy to autonomous driving and industrial inspection.