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Designing Broadband Nanoimaging with Anomalous Hyperbolic Dispersion

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A novel strategy to broadband nanoimaging of microworld in the near field is reported by using a folded-geometry transformation. This approach relies exclusively on hyperbolic metamaterials with engineered anomalous hyperbolic dispersion. The restriction on the signs of gradient in the dispersion enables invariable propagation angle of hyperbolic polaritons at different wavelengths, which could be utilized to dramatically broaden the bandwidth. Interestingly, a pseudo-broadband nanoimaging based on hyperbolic metamaterial consisting of alternating metal (e.g. Ag) and plasmonic nanocomposite (e.g. Au-Al2O3) layers is demonstrated. Such strategy of transformation optics-based broadband nanoimaging allows for a new class of robustly manufacturable nanophotonic systems, although additional gain-assisted compensation is needed to improve the performance of nanoimaging.

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The work was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 61905216 and No. 51805469, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M632462).

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Idea was carried out by Lian Shen. Analysis and simulation was carried out by Wei Yang. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript.

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Yang, W., Shen, L. Designing Broadband Nanoimaging with Anomalous Hyperbolic Dispersion. Plasmonics 16, 1791–1797 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-021-01387-9

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