Broadband negative refraction of highly squeezed hyperbolic graphene plasmons

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates broadband all-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed hyperbolic graphene plasmons in the infrared, enabling advanced nanophotonic applications through tunable nanostructured metasurfaces.

Contribution

It introduces a method to achieve broadband negative refraction of hyperbolic graphene plasmons using nanostructured metasurfaces with tunable bandwidth.

Findings

Negative refraction achieved over tens to hundreds of THz

Utilizes nanostructured graphene metasurfaces

Bandwidth tunable via chemical potential adjustment

Abstract

Negative refraction of highly squeezed polaritons is a fundamental building block for nanophotonics, since it can enable many unique applications, such as deep-subwavelength imaging. However, the phenomenon of all-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed polaritons, such as graphene plasmons with their wavelength squeezed by a factor over 100 compared to free-space photons, was reported to work only within a narrow bandwidth (<1 THz). Demonstrating this phenomenon within a broad frequency range remains a challenge that is highly sought after due to its importance for the manipulation of light at the extreme nanoscale. Here we show the broadband all-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed hyperbolic graphene plasmons in the infrared regime, by utilizing the nanostructured graphene metasurfaces. The working bandwidth can vary from several tens of THz to over a hundred of THz by tuning the chemical potential of graphene.