Devices and methods for performing high-harmonic diffractive lens color compensation

A device for correcting longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) in high-harmonic diffractive lenses, the device comprising:

• a multi-order diffractive engineered surface (MODE) lens comprising,
• a MODE primary lens;
• and
• a color corrector, wherein polychromatic light is incident on and passes through the MODE primary lens before being incident on and passing through the color corrector, and the polychromatic light passing through the MODE primary lens experiences LCA that is corrected by the color corrector, where the color corrector comprises:
• a field lens disposed at or near a focal point associated with an effective focal length (EFL) of the MODE primary lens, the field lens being optically aligned with the MODE primary lens;
• and
• an Arizona total energy color corrector (AZTECC) lens optically aligned with the field lens and the MODE primary lens, where the field lens is configured to produce an image of the MODE lens near a location of the AZTECC lens, and the AZTECC lens comprises plate zones of glass that provide an optical path difference that compensates the LCA experienced by the polychromatic light passing through the MODE primary lens.