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- The study introduces a highly efficient TiO meta-atom-based near-infrared disordered metalens inspired by bird's eye hyperuniform distribution, analyzed using the finite-difference time-domain method.
- The disordered metalens demonstrates a remarkable focusing efficiency of 84.39% at 820 nm, showing it can produce images similarly to traditional ordered structures.
- The findings suggest potential applications in advanced imaging, sensing, and spectroscopic technologies, including lidar, medical devices, and holography, due to comparable optical properties with periodic metalens structures across a wavelength range of 770 to 970 nm.
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We proposed an ingenious, highly efficient TiO meta-atom (MA)-based near-infrared disordered metalens structure harnessing bird's eye-inspired hyperuniform distribution and analyzed its optical and imaging properties employing the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The hyperuniform disordered MAs constructed an image at a focal length by engineering the phase shift of transmittance. We obtained a high focusing efficiency of 84.39% at a wavelength of 820 nm for disordered metalens structures. Amazingly, our proposed disordered metalens structures can mimic the optical properties of ordered metalens structures. Similar focusing efficiencies of disordered and ordered metalens structures were found in a wavelength range from 850 to 890 nm due to the long-range periodic properties of hyperuniform disordered structures. The focal length shifts and NAs of disordered metalens structures were comparable to the focal length shifts and NAs of periodic metalens structures in the entire operating region from 770 to 970 nm with a constant FWHM of 1.503 μm. Our proposed structure paves the way for designing new and innovative imaging, sensing, and spectroscopic technologies, such as lidar, medical devices, IR and machine vision cameras, display systems, and holography.
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