Understanding wide field-of-view flat lenses: an analytical solution [Invited]

Fan Yang; Sensong An; Mikhail Y. Shalaginov; Hualiang Zhang; Juejun Hu; Tian Gu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.023601

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