Deep-learning-driven end-to-end metalens imaging

PubDate: November 2024

Teams: Hanyang Univ；Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology；POSCO-POSTECH-RIST Convergence Research Ctr. for Flat Optics and Metaphotonics；National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology

Writers: Joonhyuk Seo, Jaegang Jo, Joohoon Kim, Joonho Kang, Chanik Kang, Seong-Won Moon, Eunji Lee, Jehyeong Hong, Junsuk Rho, Haejun Chung

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Abstract

Recent advances in metasurface lenses (metalenses) have shown great potential for opening a new era in compact imaging, photography, light detection, and ranging (LiDAR) and virtual reality/augmented reality applications. However, the fundamental trade-off between broadband focusing efficiency and operating bandwidth limits the performance of broadband metalenses, resulting in chromatic aberration, angular aberration, and a relatively low efficiency. A deep-learning-based image restoration framework is proposed to overcome these limitations and realize end-to-end metalens imaging, thereby achieving aberration-free full-color imaging for mass-produced metalenses with 10 mm diameter. Neural-network-assisted metalens imaging achieved a high resolution comparable to that of the ground truth image.