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Tunable Scattering Cancellation of Light Using Anisotropic Cylindrical Cavities

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Engineered core-shell cylinders are good candidates for applications in invisibility and cloaking. In particular, hyperbolic nanotubes demonstrate tunable ultra-low scattering cross section in the visible spectral range. In this work, we investigate the limits of validity of the condition for invisibility, which was shown to rely on reaching an epsilon near zero in one of the components of the effective permittivity tensor of the anisotropic metamaterial cavity. For incident light polarized perpendicularly to the scatterer axis, critical deviations are found in low-birefringent arrangements and also with high-index cores. We suggest that the ability of anisotropic metallodielectric nanocavities to dramatically reduce the scattered light is associated with a multiple Fano-resonance phenomenon. We extensively explore such resonant effect to identify tunable windows of invisibility.

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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (TEC2014-53727-C2-1-R).

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  1. Department of Optics and Optometry and Vision Science, University of Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, Burjassot, 46100, Spain

    Carlos Díaz-Avi nó, Mahin Naserpour & Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez

  2. Department of Physics, College of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, Iran

    Mahin Naserpour

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Díaz-Avi nó, C., Naserpour, M. & Zapata-Rodríguez, C.J. Tunable Scattering Cancellation of Light Using Anisotropic Cylindrical Cavities. Plasmonics 12, 675–683 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0313-3

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