Broadband polarization-independent low-crosstalk metasurface lens array-based mid wave infrared focal plane arrays

TL;DR

This paper presents a broadband, polarization-insensitive dielectric metasurface lens array for mid-wave infrared FPAs, achieving high efficiency and low crosstalk, significantly improving resolution and signal quality.

Contribution

It introduces a novel metasurface lens array that reduces optical crosstalk and enhances efficiency in MWIR FPAs, outperforming previous designs.

Findings

Focusing efficiency over 0.85 achieved

Optical crosstalk below 2.8% demonstrated

FoM of 91 surpasses previous MWIR FPA reports

Abstract

The miniaturization of pixel is essential for achieving high-resolution, planar, compact-size focal plane arrays (FPAs); however, the resulted increase in the optical crosstalk between adjacent pixels leads to serious drawback and trade-off. In the current work, we design and propose an efficient broadband polarization-insensitive all-dielectric metasurface lens array-based focal plane arrays (FPA) operating in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR). High focusing efficiency over 0.85 with superior optical crosstalk performance is achieved. We demonstrated that optical crosstalk can be reduced to low levels below 2.8% with high efficiency. For the device performance, a similar figure-of-merit (FoM) from the previous reports was used and our device achieved FoM of 91 which outperformed all other types MWIR FPAs designed so far. Proposed metasurface lens arrays demonstrate great potential for increasing the signal to noise ratio and sensitivity thus paving the way for compact-size, high-resolution FPAs.