title: Achromatic flat optical components via compensation between structure and material dispersions.
abstract: Chromatism causes great quality degradation of the imaging system, especially for diffraction imaging. The most commonly method to overcome chromatism is refractive/diffractive hybrid optical system which, however, sacrifices the light weight and integration property of diffraction elements. A method through compensation between the structure dispersion and material dispersion is proposed to overcome the chromatism in flat integrated optical components. This method is demonstrated by making use of silver nano-slits waveguides to supply structure dispersion of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) in metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide to compensate the material dispersion of metal. A broadband deflector and lens are designed to prove the achromatic property of this method. The method demonstrated here may serve as a solution of broadband light manipulation in flat integrated optical systems.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Mingbo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Zeyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoliang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Yanqin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, P. O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.
authors.forename: Xiangang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo