

An alternative approach is to use a phase-coded aperture 15, but this requires precise polishing of the glass surface. Such designs that work for more than three wavelengths are seldom studied. Hybrid refractive-diffractive lenses perform slightly better, but their complexity is even higher 12, 13, 14. The extra alignment makes these lenses expensive and bulky. However, this technique is cumbersome, since the number of materials equals the number of wavelengths where the chromatic aberrations are minimized 10, 11. Diffraction angle is proportional to wavelength 2 and thus longer wavelengths are focused closer than shorter ones.Ĭhromatic aberration can be corrected approximately by using materials that exhibit complementary dispersion, as in an achromatic doublet and triplet 9, 10, 11. The conventional diffractive lens (zone-plate), on the other hand, exhibits opposite chromatic aberration ( Fig. Figure 1(a) illustrates the simple example of a bi-convex glass lens and the corresponding shift of its focus, calculated by the Lensmaker’s equation 2. For refractive lenses, longer wavelengths focus at a farther distance, since in most dielectric materials, the refractive index decreases at longer wavelengths. For instance, a color camera without chromatic-aberration correction will form spatially displaced and defocused images of the blue, green and red channels.Ĭhromatic aberration is due to either the dispersion properties of the material or the structure of the optic. This phenomenon deteriorates the performance of both imaging 3, 4 and non-imaging 5 systems under broadband illumination. Almost all imaging systems suffer from chromatic aberrations, which means that light of different wavelengths generate focal spots at different spatial locations 2. An ideal lens focuses one point in the object space to one point in the image space 2. Such diffractive optics can be far simpler to manufacture and can allow for polarization-independent focusing. Scalar diffractive optics, when designed appropriately, can readily enable ultra-broadband achromatic focusing. Here, we show that it is not necessary to invoke concepts of metasurfaces or metalenses to enable such focusing. Recent work has suggested the use of metalenses for broadband achromatic focusing 1. Our design methodology offers high design flexibility in numerical aperture and focal length and is readily extended to 2D. Furthermore, these devices are thin (<3 μm), error tolerant, has low aspect ratio (<1:1) and offer polarization-insensitive focusing, all significant advantages compared to alternatives that rely on metasurfaces. These lenses are easy to fabricate using single-step grayscale lithography and can be inexpensively replicated. Super-achromatic performance over the continuous visible band is also demonstrated with averaged lateral and axial focus shifts of only 1.65 μm and 73.6 μm, respectively. Experiments confirm an average optical efficiency of 25% for a three-wavelength apochromatic lens whose chromatic focus shift is only 1.3 μm and 25 μm in the lateral and axial directions, respectively. These devices are essentially pixelated, multi-level microstructures. Specifically, we designed, fabricated and characterized cylindrical diffractive lenses that efficiently focus the entire visible band (450 nm to 700 nm) onto a single line. Or is this just the PVA technology used in the panel or the way the sub pixels are aligned for this panel.We exploit the inherent dispersion in diffractive optics to demonstrate planar chromatic-aberration-corrected lenses. I know CRT monitors had it (and there it could be incorrect alignment). Is it even possible for a LCD monitor to be defective in such a way that it creates slight chromatic aberration. I have DELL displays with a much worse anti reflective coating and they don’t have this problem. I also don’t think it has anything to do with the slightly more grainy coating used on the panel. I have tried multiple inputs (DIsplayport 1.2/ HDMI) on multiple computers and the results is the same.

I know all monitors have some minor chromatic aberration but the u32d970q has it a lot worse than the other 4k monitors I have tried (LG LG 31MU97 - BenQ B元201PT - Asus PA248Q. Every letter/object has a very small edge of green on one side and yellow red on the other.
CHROMATIC ABERRATION WINDOWS
It is not caused however by windows cleartype, as images have the same problem. It is especially visible with black letters on a white background or white letters on a black background. It has a problem with chromatic aberration around edges which also makes everything seem slightly blurry.
