• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 2, 106 (2021)
Yan Liu1,†, Qing-Yun Yu1,†, Ze-Ming Chen1,†, Hao-Yang Qiu1..., Rui Chen1, Shao-Ji Jiang1, Xin-Tao He1,2, Fu-Li Zhao1,3 and Jian-Wen Dong1,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Physics & State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2e-mail: hext9@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  • 3e-mail: stszfl@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.406197 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yan Liu, Qing-Yun Yu, Ze-Ming Chen, Hao-Yang Qiu, Rui Chen, Shao-Ji Jiang, Xin-Tao He, Fu-Li Zhao, Jian-Wen Dong, "Meta-objective with sub-micrometer resolution for microendoscopes," Photonics Res. 9, 106 (2021) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Microendoscopes are vital for disease detection and clinical diagnosis. The essential issue for microendoscopes is to achieve minimally invasive and high-resolution observations of soft tissue structures inside deep body cavities. Obviously, the microscope objective is a must with the capabilities of both high lateral resolution in a wide field of view (FOV) and miniaturization in size. Here, we propose a meta-objective, i.e., microscope objective based on cascaded metalenses. The two metalenses, with the optical diameters of 400 μm and 180 μm, respectively, are mounted on both sides of a 500-μm-thick silica film. Sub-micrometer lateral resolution reaches as high as 775 nm in such a naked meta-objective, with monochromatic aberration correction in a 125 μm full FOV and near diffraction limit imaging. Combined with a fiber bundle microscope system, the single cell contour of biological tissue (e.g., water lily leaf) can be clearly observed, compared to the indistinguishable features in other conventional lens-based fiber bundle systems, such as plano–convex and gradient refractive index (GRIN) cases.
    φ(ρ)=n=15an(ρR)2n,

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    Yan Liu, Qing-Yun Yu, Ze-Ming Chen, Hao-Yang Qiu, Rui Chen, Shao-Ji Jiang, Xin-Tao He, Fu-Li Zhao, Jian-Wen Dong, "Meta-objective with sub-micrometer resolution for microendoscopes," Photonics Res. 9, 106 (2021)
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