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Transformation optics, a recent geometrical design strategy of controlling light by combining Maxwell's principles of electromagnetism with Einstein's general relativity, promises without precedent an invisibility cloaking device that can…

Based on the concept of complementary media, we propose an invisibility cloak operating at a finite frequency that can cloak an object with a pre-specified shape and size within a certain distance outside the shell. The cloak comprises of a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yun Lai , Huanyang Chen , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

We study the approximate cloaking via transformation optics for electromagnetic waves in the time harmonic regime in which the cloaking device {\it only} consists of a layer constructed by the mapping technique. Due to the fact that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Loc Tran

Invisibility cloaks of light, which used to be confined to the imagination, have now been turned into a scientific reality, thanks to the enabling theoretical tools of transformation optics and conformal mapping. Inspired by those…

Acoustic cloaks that make object undetectable to sound waves have potential applications in a variety of scenarios and have received increasing interests recently. However, the experimental realization of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Weiwei Kan , Bin Liang , Ruiqi Li , Xue Jiang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jianchun Cheng

An elliptical invisible cloak is proposed using a coordinate transformation in the elliptical-cylindrical coordinate system, which crushes the cloaked object to a line segment instead of a point. The elliptical cloak is reduced to a…

While practical realizations of optical invisibility have been achieved so far by various ingenious methods, they generally rely on complex materials which prevent the wide implementation of such schemes. Here, we propose an alternative…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-17 Zeki Hayran , Ramon Herrero , Muriel Botey , Hamza Kurt , Kestutis Staliunas

The key challenge in current research into electromagnetic cloaking is to achieve invisibility over an extended bandwidth. There has been significant progress towards this using the idea of cloaking by sweeping under the carpet of Li and…

Very recently Farhat et al. [1] have suggested that arrays of invisibility cloaks may find important applications in low-interference communication, noninvasive probing, sensing and communication networks, etc. We report on the first…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. N. Smolyaninova , I. I. Smolyaninov , H. K. Ermer

It is shown how a recently proposed method of cloaking is effective over a broad range of frequencies. The method is based on three or more active devices. The devices, while not radiating significantly, create a ``quiet zone'' between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fernando Guevara Vasquez , Graeme W. Milton , Daniel Onofrei

Based on a coordinate transformation approach, Pendry {\it et al.} have reported electromagnetically anisotropic and inhomogeneous shells that, in theory, completely shield an interior structure of arbitrary size from electromagnetic fields…

We design non-singular cloaks enabling objects to scatter waves like objects with smaller size and very different shapes. We consider the Schrodinger equation which is valid e.g. in the contexts of geometrical and quantum optics. More…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 Andre Diatta , Sebastien Guenneau

A new recipe for concealing objects from detection is suggested. Different with traditional cloak which deflects light around the core of the cloak to make the object inside invisible, our cloak guides the light to penetrate the core of the…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-05 Yu Luo , Jingjing Zhang , Hongsheng Chen , Bae-Ian Wu , Jin Au Kong

In [AIP Advances 6, 121707 (2016)], a soil structured with concrete columns distributed within two specially designed seismic cloaks thanks to a combination of transformational elastodynamics and effective medium theory was shown to detour…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Andre Diatta , Younes Achaoui , Sebastien Guenneau

Using a sum rule, we derive new bounds on Herglotz functions that generalize those given in (Gustafson and Sj\"oberg 2010) and (Bernland, Luger and Gustafson 2011). These bounds apply to a wide class of linear passive systems such as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Maxence Cassier , Graeme W. Milton

We develop a very general theory on the regularized approximate invisibility cloaking for the wave scattering governed by the Helmholtz equation in any space dimensions via the approach of transformation optics.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Luca Rondi , Gunther Uhlmann

A cylindrical wave expansion method is developed to obtain the scattering field for an ideal two-dimensional cylindrical invisibility cloak. A near-ideal model of the invisibility cloak is set up to solve the boundary problem at the inner…

Optics · Physics 2007-09-15 Zhichao Ruan , Min Yan , Curtis W. Neff , Min Qiu

The cloaking performance of two microwave cloaks, both based on the recently proposed transmission-line approach, are studied using commercial full-wave simulation software. The cloaks are shown to be able to reduce the total scattering…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-21 Pekka Alitalo , Olli Luukkonen , Juan Mosig , Sergei Tretyakov

A new type of cloak is discussed: one that gives all cloaked objects the appearance of a flat conducting sheet. It has the advantage that none of the parameters of the cloak is singular and can in fact be made isotropic. It makes broadband…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jensen Li , J. B. Pendry

The ability to render objects invisible using a cloak - not detectable by an external observer - for concealing objects has been a tantalizing goal1-6. Here, we demonstrate a cloak operating in the near infrared at a wavelength of 1550 nm.…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-30 Lucas H. Gabrielli , Jaime Cardenas , Carl B. Poitras , Michal Lipson