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PML Inspired Transparent Metamaterials

Optics 2016-02-16 v1

Abstract

Perfectly transparent metamaterial structures of arbitrary shapes, constructed from coordinate stretching and contractions, are presented. Coordinate stretching has been used for 2 decades in perfectly matched layers (PMLs) to electromagnetically simulate infinite domains in numerical techniques, but this concept is applied here for the first time to realize a physical transmission medium. The transparent medium does not scatter electromagnetic waves, i.e. it is reflection-less for all incidence angles and all excitation frequencies. It may be implemented in the form of metasurfaces and will clearly find a myriad of applications if it can be efficiently manufactured.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04272,
  title  = {PML Inspired Transparent Metamaterials},
  author = {Nima Chamanara and Christophe Caloz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04272},
  year   = {2016}
}
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