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Perfect Broadband Invisibility in Isotropic Media with Gain and Loss

Optics 2018-02-14 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We outline a method for constructing effectively two-dimensional isotropic optical media that are perfectly and omnidirectionally invisible for both TE and TM waves provided that their wavenumber does not exceed a preassigned value α\alpha. This relies on the observation that a complex scattering potential v(x,y)v(x,y) displays perfect invisibility for wavenumbers kαk\leq\alpha provided that its Fourier transform with respect to yy, which we denote by v~(x,Ky)\tilde v(x,\mathfrak{K}_y), vanishes for Ky2α\mathfrak{K}_y\leq 2\alpha. We use this result to construct the permittivity profile for a realistic optical slab that is perfectly invisible in the wavenumber window [0,α][0,\alpha].

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@article{arxiv.1705.00500,
  title  = {Perfect Broadband Invisibility in Isotropic Media with Gain and Loss},
  author = {Farhang Loran and Ali Mostafazadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00500},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures