The present disclosure relates to a field of metalens, in particular to a hybrid lens and an optical system.
With the improvement of technology, the miniaturization and lightweight of electronic device are getting more and more important, which mean that in the proceeding of the miniaturization of electronic devices, the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical are very important.
However, with the increasing of requirements of imaging performance for users, improving imaging performance needs to increase the number of lenses, which will inevitably increase the TTL (total track length) of the optical system and is not beneficial for the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical system.
Therefore, there is an urgent need to realize the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical system while ensuring the imaging quality.
In order to solve the above technical problem that the miniaturization of the optical system is limited by the number of lenses and the volume of the lens, a hybrid lens, an optical system, an imaging device and an electronic device are provided according to the present application.
In the first aspect, a hybrid lens is provided, the hybrid lens including a first lens and a second lens in order from an object side to an image side;
Wherein, the first lens is a refractive lens with a positive focal length; the second lens is a metalens;
In one embodiment, the second lens includes a substrate and at least one nanostructured layers;
In one embodiment, a period of the nanostructures in any nanostructured layers is greater than or equal to 0.3λc, and is less than or equal to 2λc;
In one embodiment, a height of the nanostructures in any nanostructured layer is greater than or equal to 0.3λc, and is less than or equal to 5λc;
In one embodiment, the at least one nanostructured layer includes a plurality of unit cells, and the plurality of unit cells are arranged in an array;
In one embodiment, the plurality of nanostructures are polarization-independent structures.
In one embodiment, the polarization-independent structures include cylinder structures, hollow structures, cylindrical structures, round-hole structures, hollow-round-hole structures, square column structures, square hole structures, hollow square column structures and hollow square hole structures.
In one embodiment, the metalens further comprises an antireflection film;
In one embodiment, a wide-spectrum phase of unit cell of the second lens also satisfies:
In one embodiment, the plurality of nanostructures in any two adjacent nanostructured layers are coaxial.
In one embodiment, the metalens includes at least two nanostructured layers; the nanostructures in any adjacent nanostructured layer are non-coaxial along a direction parallel with the substrate.
In the second aspect, a manufacturing method for a metalens is provided, wherein the manufacturing method is used to manufacture the metalens of the hybrid lens, and the manufacturing method includes:
In one embodiment, the manufacturing method further includes:
In the third aspect, an optical system is provided, and the optical system includes five optical elements, wherein in order from an object side to an image side, the five optical elements include: an aperture slot, a hybrid lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens;
In one embodiment, the optical system satisfies the following condition:
In one embodiment, the optical system satisfies the following condition:
In one embodiment, the optical system satisfies the following condition:
In one embodiment, the optical system further satisfies:
In the fourth aspect, an imaging device is provided, wherein the imaging device includes the optical system and an image sensor; the image sensor is set on the image plane of the optical system.
In the fifth aspect, an electronic device is provided, wherein the electronic device includes the imaging device.
In conclusion, the hybrid lens improves the design freedom of the optical system by combining the metalens and the refractive lens. The manufacturing method of metalens manufactures each nanostructured layer of the metalens and obtains the metalens with at least one nanostructured, which increases the aspect ratio of the metalens and improves the design freedom of the metalens. The focal length of the optical system provided by the present application is greater than 3 mm and the TTL of the optical system is less than 3 mm by using the metalens and the refractive lens in the hybrid lens as the first lens and the second lens in the optical system, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical system.
The above and other targets, features and advantages of the example embodiment thereof by reference to the accompanying drawings.
The application is more comprehensively described below with reference to the drawings, and the embodiments are shown in the drawings. However, the present application may be implemented in many different ways and should not be construed as limited to the embodiment described herein. Instead, these embodiments are provided such that the application will be exhaustive and complete, and will fully communicate the scope of the application to those skilled in the art. The same attached drawing marks throughout indicate the same components. Furthermore, in the drawings, the thickness, ratio and size of the components are enlarged to clearly illustrate.
The term used herein is used only for the purpose of describing the specific embodiment and is not intended to be a limitation. The “one”, “a single”, “the”, “this”, “one” and “at least” used in this application do not represent a limitation on quantity, but are intended to include both singular and plural. For example, “one part” has the same meaning as “at least one part” unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. “At least one” should not be interpreted as limiting to the quantity “one”. “Or” means “and/or”. The term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Unless otherwise limited, all terms used herein, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by those skilled in the field. The terms defined in a jointly used dictionary shall be construed to have the same meaning as those defined in the relevant technical context, and are not interpreted in an idealized or too formal meaning, unless clearly defined in the specification.
The meaning of “include” or “comprise” specifies the nature, quantity, steps, operation, parts, parts, or combinations thereof, but does not exclude other nature, quantity, steps, operation, parts, parts, or a combination of them.
This application describes the implementation with a reference to the section diagram as an idealized embodiment. Thus, relative to illustrated shape changes as a result of, for example, manufacturing technique and/or tolerance. Therefore, the embodiments described herein should not be interpreted to be limited to specific shapes of the region as shown herein, but should include deviations from shapes due to fabrication. For example, regions shown or described as flat may typically have coarse and/or non-linear characteristics. Also, the sharp angles shown can be rounded. Thus, the regions shown in the figure are schematic in nature and their shapes are not intended to show the precise shape of the area and are not intended to limit the scope of the claim.
One embodiment according to the present application will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings below.
In the proceeding of miniaturization of an optical system, it is difficult for the optical system including a traditional plastic lens to make breakthroughs in thickness and large curvature due to the limitation of injection molding technology. Thus, the thickness, intervals between the lenses, and TTL for the optical system with five lenses are difficult to break through. On the other hand, there are only about ten optional materials for plastic lenses, which limits the freedom of the aberration correction of the optical system. At present, although the hybrid lens of glass resin solves problems such as chromatic aberration to a certain extent, the injection molding process still greatly hinders the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical system. Today, the optical system requires an enormous effort even for every 1 millimeter of total track length reduction of the optical system.
In the first aspect, a hybrid lens is provided in the present application, as shown in
In the conditions (1-1)-(1-3), t12 is a distance between the first lens and the second lens; f1 is a focal length of the first lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens; R1i is a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the first lens; R1o is a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the first lens. It should be noted that the distance t12 may be less than a reference value. Optionally, when the hybrid lens is applied to consumer electronic devices, t12 may be less than 0.5 mm.
Firstly, the hybrid lens is able to reduce the difficulty of wavefront aberration correction for the lenses behind the hybrid lens by combining the aspheric lens and the metalens when the hybrid lens works in a lens group that has more than 4 lenses. Secondly, if the second lens is another kind of lens except the metalens, the second lens 20 requires a higher-order surface structure such as multiple points of inflection to achieve a similar effect, but the existing manufacturing technology does not support such a complex design. Moreover, because the thickness of the metalens is significantly less than the thickness of the refractive lens, the TTL of the optical system will be reduced effectively.
According to the embodiment of the present application, the first lens may be made of an optical glass, such as crown glass, flint glass, quartz glass, etc., or various types of optical plastics, such as APL5514, OKP4HT, etc. Preferably, the first lens 10 may be made of an optical plastic. The first lens 10 uses optical plastic to achieve mass production of aspherical lenses at low cost by injection molding.
According to the embodiment of the present application, the focusing performance of the second lens 20 is less than the focusing performance of the first lens 10. The second lens 20 is used to correct the chromatic spherical aberration of the first lens 10, other monochromatic aberrations and the lateral chromatic aberration. Optionally, the absolute value of the ratio of the focal length of the second lens 20 to the focal length of the first lens 10 needs to be greater than 8.
Next, the metalens (that is, the second lens 20) provided by the present application as shown from
Specifically, the metalens is a kind of metasurface, the metasurface modulates the phase, amplitude and polarization of the incident lights by the sub-wavelength nanostructures arranged in a period.
According to the embodiment of the present application, optionally, the period of the nanostructures in any nanostructured layers is greater than or equal to 0.3λc, and is less than or equal to 2λc; and λc is a central wavelength of the second lens at the working waveband.
According to the embodiment of the present application, optionally, a height of the nanostructures in any nanostructured layer is greater than or equal to 0.3λc, and is less than or equal to 5λc; and λc is a central wavelength of the second lens at the working waveband.
In some optional embodiments of the present application, as shown from
As shown in
Optionally, the wide-spectrum phase of unit cell 203 at the working waveband of the metalens also satisfies:
In condition (2), r is a radial coordinates of the metalens; r0 is a distance between any position on the metalens and the center of the metalens; λ is a working wavelength of the metalens.
In one embodiment, the nanostructures 2021 provided by the present embodiment may be polarization-independent structures, and the polarization-independent structures apply a propagation phase to the incident lights. The embodiments as shown in
Preferably, as shown in
In one embodiment, “a”-“d” in
According to the embodiment of the present application, in
In one optional embodiment, as shown in
According to the embodiment of the present application, the extinction coefficient of substrate 201 is less than 0.01. For example, the substrate 201 may be made of molten quartz, quartz glass, crown glass, flint glass, sapphire, crystalline silicon, amorphous silicon or hydrogenated amorphous silicon. In one embodiment, when the working waveband of the metalens is a visible waveband, the substrate 201 may be made of molten quartz, quartz glass, crown glass, flint glass, sapphire, or alkaline glass. In an optional embodiment, the material of the nanostructures 2021 is different from the material of the substrate 201. Optionally, the filler material 2022 is the same as the material of the substrate 201. Optionally, the filler material 2022 is different from the material of the substrate 201.
It should be understood that in some optional embodiments of the present application, the filler material 2022 is of the same material as the nanostructure 2021. In some optional embodiments of the present application, the filler material 2022 is different from the material of the nanostructure 2021. In one embodiment, the filler material 2022 is made of a high transmittance material with an extinction coefficient less than 0.01 at the working waveband. In one embodiment, the filler material 2022 may be made of molten quartz, quartz glass, crown glass, flint glass, sapphire, crystalline silicon, amorphous silicon, or hydrogenated amorphous silicon.
Optionally, the effective refractive index range of the metalens provided by the present application embodiment is less than 2. The effective refractive index range is the maximum refractive index of the second lens 20 minus its minimum refractive index. According to the embodiment of the present application, the phase of the metalens provided by the embodiment of the present application also meets formulas (3):
Optionally, the real phase of the second lens 20 provided by the present application can match with the ideal theoretical phase, that is, the matching degree of the wide spectrum of the metalens satisfies the formula (4) as follows:
In one embodiment, the present embodiment provides a second lens 20. The second lens 20 includes a substrate 201 and two nanostructured layers 202 setting on substrate 201. From the direction away from the substrate 201, the two nanostructured layers 202 are the first nanostructured layer and the second nanostructured layer. The specific parameter items are as shown in Table 1.
Optionally, the wide-spectrum phase of unit cell 203 and the working waveband of the second lens 20 also satisfy:
In one embodiment, the present embodiment provides a second lens 20. The second lens 20 includes a substrate 201 and two nanostructured layers 202 setting on substrate 201. From the direction away from the substrate 201, the two nanostructured layers 202 are the first nanostructured layer and the second nanostructured layer. The specific parameter items are as shown in Table 2.
Optionally, the wide-spectrum phase of unit cell 203 and the working waveband of the second lens 20 also satisfy:
In the second aspect, the manufacturing method for the metalens is provided, and the manufacturing method is applied to the second lens (metalens) 20 in any embodiment provided by the present application. As shown in
Optionally, as shown in
In the third aspect, the present embodiment provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
Each optical element includes an object-side surface facing towards the object plane and an image-side surface facing towards the image plane. The third lens 30 is a refractive lens, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens 30 is negative. The fourth lens 40 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. The fifth lens 50 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. There is at least one aspheric surface in the surfaces of the third lens 30, the fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50, and the aspheric surface has one point of inflection.
Further, the optical system provided by the present application satisfies the conditions as follows:
According to an optional embodiment provided by the present application, the optical system satisfies the condition (6):
According to an optional embodiment provided by the present application, the optical system further satisfies condition (7):
According to an optional embodiment provided by the present application, the optical system further satisfies condition (8):
TTL is a total track length of the optical system. ImgH is a maximum imaging height of the optical system. The maximum imaging height refers to half of the diagonal length of the effective sensing area of the electronic image sensor. TTL is a total track length of the optical system, that is, the distance between the object-side surface of the first lens and the image plane of the optical system.
According to an optional embodiment provided by the present application, the optical system further satisfies condition (9):
In the optical system provided by the present application, the aspheric surfaces in the third lens 30, fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50 are shown in condition (10):
According to the embodiment of the present application, the fifth lens 50 is used to correct the optical aberrations of the first lens 10 to the fourth lens 40, the optical aberrations include but are not limited to the monochromatic aberrations and chromatic aberrations.
The optical system in order from an object side to an image side, the six optical elements include: an aperture slot (STO) 60, a first lens 10, a second lens 20, a third lens 30, a fourth lens 40 and a fifth lens 50.
Each optical element includes an object-side surface facing towards the object plane and an image-side surface facing towards the image plane. The third lens 30 is a refractive lens, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens 30 is negative. The fourth lens 40 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. The fifth lens 50 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. There is at least one aspheric surface in the surfaces of the third lens 30, the fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50, and the aspheric surface has one point of inflection.
Further, the optical system provided by the present application satisfies the conditions as follows:
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 3 are shown in Table 3-1. “VIS” in Table 3-1 represents a visible waveband. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 3-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 3-3.
In one embodiment, as shown in
Each optical element includes an object-side surface facing towards the object plane and an image-side surface facing towards the image plane. The third lens 30 is a refractive lens, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens 30 is negative. The fourth lens 40 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. The fifth lens 50 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. There is at least one aspheric surface in the surfaces of the third lens 30, the fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50, and the aspheric surface has one point of inflection.
Further, the optical system provided by embodiment 4 of the present application satisfies the conditions as follows:
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 4 are shown in Table 4-1. “VIS” in Table 4-1 represents a visible waveband. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 4-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 4-3.
In one embodiment, as shown in
Each optical element includes an object-side surface facing towards the object plane and an image-side surface facing towards the image plane. The third lens 30 is a refractive lens, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens 30 is negative. The fourth lens 40 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. The fifth lens 50 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. There is at least one aspheric surface in the surfaces of the third lens 30, the fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50, and the aspheric surface has one point of inflection.
Further, the optical system provided by embodiment 5 of the present application satisfies the conditions as follows:
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 4 are shown in Table 5-1. “VIS” in Table 5-1 represents a visible waveband. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 5-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 5-3.
In one embodiment, as shown in
Each optical element includes an object-side surface facing towards the object plane and an image-side surface facing towards the image plane. The third lens 30 is a refractive lens, and the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens 30 is negative. The fourth lens 40 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. The fifth lens 50 is a refractive lens, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens 40 is a concave surface. There is at least one aspheric surface in the surfaces of the third lens 30, the fourth lens 40 and the fifth lens 50, and the aspheric surface has one point of inflection.
Further, the optical system provided by embodiment 6 of the present application satisfies the conditions as follows:
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 6 are shown in Table 6-1. “VIS” in Table 6-1 represents a visible waveband. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 6-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 6-3.
It should be noted that in an optional embodiment, the optical system provided by the present application further includes an infrared filter 70 (IR filter). The infrared filter 70 is set between the fifth lens 50 and the image plane of the optical system. The working waveband of the optical system is a visible waveband, and the infrared filter 70 is beneficial to filter the lights at the infrared waveband to improve the imaging quality. It should be noted that the metalens (second lens 20) can be manufactured through a semiconductor process, and has the advantages of lightweight, thin thickness, simple structure and process, low cost and high consistency of mass production.
In conclusion, the hybrid lens improves the design freedom of the optical system by combining the metalens and the refractive lens. The manufacturing method of metalens obtains the metalens with at least one nanostructured layer by layer-by-layer manufacturing, which increases the aspect ratio of the metalens and improves the design freedom of the metalens. The focal length of the optical system provided by the present application is greater than 3 mm and the TTL of the optical system is less than 3 mm by using the metalens and the refractive lens in the hybrid lens as the first lens and the second lens in the optical system, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of the optical system.
The above is only a specific embodiment of the embodiments of this disclosure, but the scope of protection of the embodiment of this disclosure is not limited to this. And those skilled in the field can easily think of any change or substitution for this disclosure, which should be covered within the protection scope of this disclosure. Therefore, the scope of the protection of the present disclosure shall be the scope of the claims.
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202210726528.1 | Jun 2022 | CN | national |
202221597882.0 | Jun 2022 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation of International Patent Application of PCT application serial No. PCT/CN2023/097230, filed on May 30, 2023, which claims the benefit of priority from China Application No. 202221597882.0 and 202210726528.1, filed on Jun. 24, 2022. The entirety of each of the above-mentioned patent applications is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
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Parent | PCT/CN2023/097230 | May 2023 | WO |
Child | 18991669 | US |