Design and optimization of dielectric metalens with quasi-periodic arrays

Abstract

Metalenses have attracted a great deal of research interests due to the property of light controllability. How to enhance the focusing effect of metalens has always been a key problem that many researchers have been working on. In this paper, we propose a novel sub-dimensional resonance-based optimization method for dielectric metalens with golden angle spiral arrays. The waveguiding effect is first applied to the initial design of the quasi-periodic metalens through the defined equivalent period. Then the genetic algorithm is improved for adjusting the sub-dimensional structure of the initial metalens. The optimization results show that the peak intensity of central hot spot increases by 32 % while keeping the full width at half maximum (FWHM) almost unchanged. At the same time, the field intensity of side lobes around the hot spot decreases, which means that a potential way for high-contrast imaging is provided.