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¹Department of Applied Physics, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.

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Summary

New performance metrics reveal that current achromatic flat lenses do not outperform conventional diffractive lenses. This study introduces a metric for comparing diverse flat lens designs, enabling future advancements in achromatic flat lens technology.

Keywords:

broadband diffractive lens flat lens metalens performance

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Optics and Photonics
Materials Science

Background:

Metalenses and diffractive lenses, or "flat lenses," have been extensively researched.
Recent efforts focus on achieving wide-band achromatic performance in flat lenses.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the challenge of demonstrating improved imaging performance for achromatic flat lenses compared to conventional ones.
To introduce a novel, overall performance metric for comparing diverse flat lens designs, irrespective of their first-order optical parameters.

Main Methods:

Development of a new performance metric to evaluate and compare different types of flat lenses.
Application of the metric to assess published achromatic flat lens designs.
Comparison of achromatic flat lens performance against conventional diffractive lenses as a baseline.

Main Results:

The developed performance metric allows for the comparison of flat lenses with differing optical parameters.
Evaluated achromatic flat lenses did not demonstrate superior imaging performance compared to conventional diffractive lenses.
The conventional diffractive lens serves as a benchmark, representing the lower bound for achromatic flat lens performance.

Conclusions:

Current achromatic flat lenses do not surpass the performance of conventional diffractive lenses.
The proposed performance metric is crucial for objectively evaluating and advancing achromatic flat lens technology.
Standardized metrics will facilitate demonstrable progress in the development of superior achromatic flat lenses.