Abstract

Metalenses have been widely investigated for their features of high design freedom. For practical applications, it is necessary to maximize the efficiency of the metalens. However, it is a great challenge to realize both a high numerical aperture (NA) and high-efficiency metalens in the community. Here, we introduce a method to design a hybrid metalens with a large numerical aperture and high focusing efficiency at terahertz frequency. The hybrid metalens consists of gradient metasurfaces in the central area and metagrating in the peripheral area to achieve high-efficiency beam focusing. To verify this concept, a hybrid metalens with a numerical aperture of 0.95 was designed at λ = 118.8 μm. The simulation results demonstrate that the focusing efficiency of the hybrid metalens is 65.8%. The experimental results show that the designed metalens is able to increase the focusing efficiency from 22.8% to 41.7%. The full widths at half maxima (FWHMs) of the focused spots of the hybrid metalens in the x direction and y direction are 0.72λ and 0.45λ, respectively. The proposed high-efficiency hybrid metalens has promising application prospects in various applications of a complex optical system.

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