Aberrations of flat lenses and aplanatic metasurfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 31530-31539

  Aieta, Francesco ^a   Genevet, Patrice ^a   Kats, Mikhail ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ABERRATION-FREE; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AXIAL ILLUMINATIONS; CURVED SUBSTRATES; PHASE-DISCONTINUITIES; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; WAVE ABERRATIONS;

ABERRATIONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84890518564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.031530     Document Type: Article

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