Metalenses can greatly reduce the complexity of imaging systems due to their small size and light weight and also provide a platform for the realization of multifunctional imaging devices. Achieving dynamic focus length tunability is highly important for metalens research. In this paper, based on single-crystal Ge and a new low-loss phase change material Ge2Sb2Se5 (GSSe), a tunable metalens formed by a double-layer metasurface composite was realized in the mid-infrared band. The first-layer metasurface formed by Ge nanopillars combines propagation and the geometric phase (equivalent to a half-wave plate function) to produce single- or multiple-polarization-dependent foci. The second-layer metasurface formed by GSSe nanopillars provides a tunable propagation phase, and the double-layer metalens can achieve the tunability of the focus length depending on the different crystalline fractions of GSSe. The focal length varies from 62.91 to 67.13 μm under right circularly polarized light incidence and from 33.84 to 36.66 μm under left circularly polarized light incidence. Despite the difference in the crystallographic fraction, the metalens’s focusing efficiency is maintained basically around 59% and 48% when zooming under RCP and LCP wave excitation. Meanwhile, the incident wave’s ellipticity can be changed to alter the relative intensity ratios of the bifocals from 0.03 to 4.26. This continuous varifocal metalens with adjustable intensity may have potential in practical applications such as optical tomography, multiple imaging, and systems of optical communication.
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