Confined Hyperbolic Metasurface Modes for Structured Illumination Microscopy

Plasmonic hyperbolic metasurfaces have emerged as an effective platform for manipulating the propagation of light. Here, confined modes on arrays of silver nanoridges that exhibit hyperbolic dispersion are used to demonstrate and model a super-resolution imaging technique based on structured illumination microscopy. A spatial resolution of ~75 nm at 458 nm is demonstrated, which is 3.1 times better than an equivalent diffraction limited image. This work emphasizes the ability to engineer the properties of confined optical modes and to leverage those characteristics for applications in imaging. The results of this work could lead to improved approaches for super-resolution imaging using designed sub-wavelength structures.