We propose and demonstrate low-refractive-index particles with all-dielectric metamaterial shell which lead to formation of high intensity photonic nanojets. We show that the extra degree of freedom because of the anisotropy of the shell gives rise to an increase in the photonic jet intensity inside the metamaterial shell without a need to increase the size of the particle. The anisotropy of the shell can also control the spectral and spatial location of the Mie-type multipolar resonances to achieve the desired scattering. In experiments, the metamaterial shell is composed of strong nonlinear materials leading to enhanced nonlinear wavelength conversion at nanoscale.
Here, we surpass the diffraction limit of light by a new class of all-dielectric artificial materials that are lossless. This overcomes one of the fundamental challenges of light confinement in metamaterials and plasmonics: metallic loss. Our approach relies on controlling the optical momentum of evanescent waves as opposed to conventional photonic devices which manipulate propagating waves. This leads to a counterintuitive confinement strategy for electromagnetic waves across the entire spectrum. We introduce two distinct photonic design principles that can ideally lead to sub-diffraction light confinement without metal. They are i) relaxed total internal reflection and ii) photonic skin-depth engineering. We present initial experimental results on a CMOS compatible platform that prove the enhanced confinement of our all-dielectric metamaterial design.
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