Highly efficient achromatic subdiffraction focusing lens in the near field with large numerical aperture

Jin Chen; Hongchen Chu; Yun Lai; Huanyang Chen; Weili Song; Mingji Chen; Daining Fang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.427322

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