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Bidirectional invisibility in Kramers-Kronig optical media

Optics 2016-08-24 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

A broad class of planar dielectric media with complex permittivity profiles that are fully invisible, for both left and right incidence sides, is introduced. Such optical media are locally isotropic, non-magnetic and belong to the recently discovered class of Kramers-Kronig media [{\it Nature Photon.} 9, 436 (2015)], i.e. the spatial profiles of the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric permittivity are related each other by a Hilbert transform. The transition from unidirectional to bidirectional invisibility, and the possibility to realize sharp reflection above a cut-off incidence angle, are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1607.04085,
  title  = {Bidirectional invisibility in Kramers-Kronig optical media},
  author = {Stefano Longhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04085},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters