The present disclosure relates to a field of optical image, in particular to an optical system and an imaging device.
With the improvement of semiconductor manufacturing, the pixel size of the imaging sensor is getting smaller and smaller, which means the requirements of imaging performance for the optical system have been increasing.
However, the usual method to realize the high performance of the optical system is to increase the number of lenses in the optical system, which will inevitably increase the size and weight 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, an optical system, an imaging device and an electronic device are provided according to the present application.
In the first aspect, an optical system is provided, the optical system including six optical elements, wherein in order from an object side to an image side, the six optical elements include: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth 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 image-side of the fourth lens is a concave surface, and the optical system satisfies the following condition:
In one embodiment, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the sixth lens is less than 0.
In one embodiment, the first lens satisfies the following condition:
In one embodiment, there is at least one aspheric refractive lens in the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens.
In one embodiment, the metalens comprises at least two nanostructured layers;
In one embodiment, the metalens comprises at least two nanostructured layers; the nanostructures in any adjacent nanostructured layer are non-coaxial along a direction parallel with the substrate.
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 2λc;
In one embodiment, the metalens further comprises an antireflection film;
In one embodiment, the plurality of nanostructures are polarization-independent structures.
In one embodiment, the polarization-independent structures comprise 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, a working waveband of the optical system comprises a visible waveband.
In the second aspect, a manufacturing method for a metalens, wherein the manufacturing method is used to manufacture the metalens of the optical system claimed as claim 2, and the manufacturing method comprises:
In one embodiment, the manufacturing method further comprises:
In the third aspect, an imaging device is provided, wherein the imaging device comprises the optical system and an image sensor; the image sensor is set on the image plane of the optical system.
In the fourth aspect, an electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes the imaging device.
In conclusion, in the optical system provided by the present application, the first lens is configured to be an aspheric refractive lens to provide main focal power, and the second lens is configured to be a metalens. The other lenses are configured to be refractive lenses, and at least one surface of the other lenses is an aspheric surface. The length and weight of the six-lens optical system will be reduced by using the arrangement mode of “f/EPD<3; 25°≤HFOV≤55°; 0.05 mm≤d2≤2 mm”, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of optical system.
The imaging device provided by the present application, the optical system provided by the present application has a smaller volume and a lighter weight, and better imaging effect, which is beneficial to combine the optical system with a larger size of the sensor and reduces the installation space of the optical system in the imaging device. In this way, the miniaturization and lightweight of the imaging device is realized.
The electronic device provided by the present application uses the imaging device provided by the application. Because the optical system in the present application has a smaller volume, lighter weight, and better imaging effect, it is beneficial to combine the optical system with the larger size of the sensor and reduce the installation space of the optical system in the imaging device. In this way, the electronic device reduces the volume and weight of the imaging device by using the imaging device, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of the imaging device.
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 optical system, it is difficult for the optical system including 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 six lenses is difficult to breakthrough. 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 reduction of total track length of the optical system. And the existing technology of the optical system with six optical elements is limited by existing manufacturing technology, which leads to a low yield.
In the first aspect, an optical system is provided in the present application, as shown from
The arrangement mode is beneficial to reduce the total track length of the optical system. If exceeding the limitation of the above formulas (1-1)-(1-4), the resolution of the optical system will reduce and the TTL (total track length) of the optical system will increase. TTL (total track length) of the optical system refers to the distance between the object-side surface of the first lens and the image plane of the optical system. The surface of the refractive lens includes the object-side surface and the image-side surface. The structural diagram of the metalens is shown in
In one optional embodiment, the optical system satisfies the condition (2):
In an optional embodiment, the optical system further satisfies condition (3) provided by the present embodiment:
Wherein V1 is an Abbe number of the first lens; V3 is an Abbe number of the third lens; V4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens. The optical system satisfying condition (3) can reduce the volume of the optical system, and improve the edge imaging quality of the optical system to avoid the darkness around the edge of the imaging. And this arrangement will be beneficial to compress the TTL of the optical system.
In an optional embodiment, the optical system further satisfies condition (4) provided by the present embodiment:
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.
In an optional embodiment, the image-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface, and the optical system satisfies the following condition:
In an optional embodiment, the optical system further satisfies:
In an optional embodiment, there is at least one aspheric refractive lens in the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens. In one embodiment, in the optical system provided by the present application, all the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are aspheric refractive lenses.
In the optical system provided by the present application, the aspheric surfaces in the object-side surface and image-side surface of all lenses except the second lens 20 are shown in condition (7):
z represents the surface vector parallel to z axis, z axis is an optical axis of the optical system, c is the central curvature radius of the aspheric surface, k is a constant of center of quadric surface, A˜J are higher order coefficients.
In some optional embodiments, the optical system further comprises an aperture slot (STO) 70. Theoretically, the aperture slot 70 may be disposed on one side of any lens in the optical system. Optionally, the aperture slot 70 of the optical system of the present embodiment is provided on a side near the object side of the first lens 10 to control the aperture of the entire optical system to prevent the aperture of the optical system being too large from preventing the miniaturization of the optical system.
In an optional embodiment, the optical system provided by the present application further includes an infrared filter 80 (IR filter). The infrared filter 80 is set between the sixth lens 60 and the image plane of the optical system. The working waveband of the optical system is a visible waveband, and the infrared filter 80 is beneficial to filter the lights at the infrared waveband to improve the imaging quality, which also can avoid the image sensor being damaged by burning. It is also beneficial to reduce the imaging distortion of the optical system and improve the imaging quality of the optical system.
Next, the metalens (that is, the second lens 20) is described in detail. It should be understood that the metalens is an application of the metasurface. And the metalens includes a substrate 201 and a nanostructured layer 202; and the nanostructured layer 202 is set on at least one side of the substrate; and the number of the nanostructured layer is greater than or equal to 1; each layer of the nanostructured layers includes a plurality of nanostructures 2022, and the plurality of nanostructures 2022 are 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 in
As shown in
Optionally, the wide-spectrum phase of unit cell 203 and the working waveband of the metalens also satisfy:
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 2022 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 2022 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 2022. In some optional embodiments of the present application, the filler material 2022 is different from the material of the nanostructure 2022. 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 metalens 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 (9-1)-(9-8):
r is a distance between any center of nanostructure and the center of the metalens; λ is a working wavelength of the metalens; φ0(λ) is any phase corresponding to the working wavelength; (x, y) is the coordinates of the metalens (in some cases, it can be regarded as the coordinates of the surface of the substrate 201); fML is a focal length of the metalens (the second lens 20); ai and bi are real coefficients. It should be noted that the phase of the metalens can be expressed in high-degree polynomials, and high-degree polynomials include both odd and even polynomials. In order not to break the rotational symmetry of the phase of metalens, in general, the phase of the even-degree polynomials is only optimized, which greatly reduces the design degree of freedom of the metalens. From the formulas (9-1) to (9-8), formulas (9-4)-(9-6) are capable of satisfying the optimization of the phase of the odd-degree polynomial without breaking its rotational symmetry, and greatly increase the optimization degree of freedom of the metalens.
Optionally, the real phase of the metalens 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 (10) as follows:
λmax is the longest wavelength at the working waveband and λmin is the shortest wavelength at the working waveband. For example, λmax=700 nm, λmin=400 nm. φthe is the target theoretical phase and φreal is the real phase in the database.
In one embodiment, the present embodiment provides a metalens. The metalens 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.
In one embodiment, the present embodiment provides a metalens. The metalens includes a substrate 201 and two nanostructured layers 202 setting on the substrate 201. The two nanostructured layers 202 from the direction away from the substrate 201 are the first nanostructured layer and the second nanostructured layer. The specific parameters are shown in Table 2.
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 one embodiment, embodiment 3 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 3 are shown in Table 3-1. 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 3-3-1 and Table 3-3-2, and the aspheric coefficients are shown in formula (9).
In one embodiment, embodiment 4 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 4 are shown in Table 4-1. 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 4-3-1 and Table 4-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 5 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 5 are shown in Table 5-1. 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 5-3-1 and Table 5-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 6 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 6 are shown in Table 6-1. 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 6-3-1 and Table 6-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 7 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 7 are shown in Table 7-1. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 7-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 7-3-1 and Table 7-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 8 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 8 are shown in Table 8-1. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 8-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 8-3-1 and Table 8-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 9 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 9 are shown in Table 9-1. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 9-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 9-3-1 and Table 9-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 10 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 10 are shown in Table 10-1. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 10-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 10-3-1 and Table 10-3-2.
In one embodiment, embodiment 11 provides an optical system, and the optical system is shown in
f is a focal length of the optical system; EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical system; HFOV is a half of the maximum field of view; d2 is a thickness of the second lens; f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
The specific parameters of the optical system provided by embodiment 11 are shown in Table 11-1. The curvature, thickness, refractive index, and other parameter items of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 11-2. The aspherical coefficients of each surface of each lens in the optical system are shown in Table 11-3-1 and Table 11-3-2.
In the third aspect, an imaging device is provided by the present application, the imaging device includes any optical system provided by the present application, and the imaging sensor set on the image plane of the optical system. Preferably, the imaging sensor is an electronic imaging sensor, for example, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) or a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor).
In the fourth aspect, an electronic device is provided by the present application, the electronic device includes the imaging device mentioned above.
It should be noted that the metalens provided by the embodiment of the present application can be processed through a semiconductor process and has the advantages of light weight, thin thickness, simple structure and process, low cost and high consistency in mass production.
In conclusion, in the optical system provided by the present application, the first lens is configured to be an aspheric refractive lens to provide main focal power of the whole optical system, and the second lens is configured to be a metalens. The other lenses are configured to be refractive lenses, and at least one surface of the other lenses is an aspheric surface. The length and weight of the six-lens optical system will be reduced by using the arrangement mode of “f/EPD<3; 25°≤HFOV≤55°; 0.05 mm≤d2≤2 mm”, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of optical system.
The imaging device provided by the present application, the optical system provided by the present application has a smaller volume and a lighter weight, and better imaging effect, which is beneficial to combine the optical system with a larger size of the sensor and reduces the installation space of the optical system in the imaging device. In this way, the miniaturization and lightweight of the imaging device is realized.
The electronic device provided by the present application uses the imaging device provided by the application. Because the optical system in the present application has a smaller volume, lighter weight, and better imaging effect, it is beneficial to combine the optical system with the larger size of the sensor and reduce the installation space of the optical system in the imaging device. In this way, the electronic device reduces the volume and weight of the imaging device by using the imaging device, which realizes the miniaturization and lightweight of the imaging device.
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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202210724663.2 | Jun 2022 | CN | national |
202221597876.5 | Jun 2022 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation of International Patent Application of PCT application serial No. PCT/CN2023/097323, filed on May 31, 2023, which claims the benefit of priority from China Application No. 202210724663.2 and No. 202221597876.5, both 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/CN2023/097323 | May 2023 | WO |
Child | 18986606 | US |