Ultracompact wide-FOV near-infrared camera with a wafer-level manufactured meta-aspheric lens

Rong Lin; Din Ping Tsai

doi:10.1186/s43593-026-00133-0

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Ultracompact wide-FOV near-infrared camera with a wafer-level manufactured meta-aspheric lens

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- Ultracompact wide-FOV near-infrared camera with a wafer-level manufactured meta-aspheric lens
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Rong Lin, Din Ping Tsai. Ultracompact wide-FOV near-infrared camera with a wafer-level manufactured meta-aspheric lens[J]. eLight, 2026, 6.
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Rong Lin, Din Ping Tsai. Ultracompact wide-FOV near-infrared camera with a wafer-level manufactured meta-aspheric lens[J]. eLight, 2026, 6. DOI： 10.1186/s43593-026-00133-0.

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Hybrid metasurface–refractive systems have often raised concerns about their overall volume and the complexity of mechanical alignment. This reported study presents a fully in

tegrated meta-aspheric optical system that realizes a wide field of view within an ultracompact volume of 0.02 cm

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