Supplementary Information
Experimental imaging properties of immersion microscale
spherical lenses
Ran Ye,1 Yong-Hong Ye,1,* Hui Feng Ma, 2 Lingling Cao, 1 Jun Ma,3
Frank Wyrowski, 4 Rui Shi,4 and Jia-Yu Zhang5
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Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology,
Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097,
China
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State Kay Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing
210096, China
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School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of
Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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Institute
of
Applied
Physics,
Friedrich-Schiller-University
Jena,
Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Department of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing
210096, China
*Corresponding author: yeyonghong@njnu.edu.cn
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Captions:
Supplementary Figure S1 Optical images of a semi-immersed microscale lens on a
large object.
The lens is semi-immersed in the index-matching oil, and the distance d between the
lens and the object is about 3.1 μm. A virtual image (1.38×, s1-1) and a real image
(-1.80×, s1-2) are formed. The large object is fabricated with the 960 nm
microspheres. The results are similar to the case when the lens is semi-immersed in
the SU-8 resist. The scale bar is 2 μm.
Supplementary Figure S2 Optical images of a semi-immersed microscale lens on a
random object.
The lens is semi-immersed in the SU-8 resist, and the object is fabricated with the 960
nm microspheres which are randomly packed.
The distance d between the lens and the object is about 3.1 μm. A virtual image
(1.50×, s2-1) and a real image (-1.85×, s2-2) are formed. The results are similar to the
case when the microspheres are hexagonally close-packed. The scale bar is 2 μm.
Supplementary Figure S3 Focal length of a microscale lens.
(a) (a and b) The lens is not semi-immersed in the SU-8 resist. (a) Simulated by CST.
(b) Simulated by ZEMAX. (c and d) The lens is semi-immersed in the SU-8 resist. (c)
Simulated by CST. (d) Simulated by ZEMAX. λ=555 nm.
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