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Invisibility cloaking in acoustic scattering via the approach of transformation optics is considered. The near-cloaks of both passive medium and active/radiating object are investigated. From a practical viewpoint, we are especially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Hongyu Liu

The invisibility cloak has been a long-standing dream for many researchers over the decades. By transforming space and light propagation, a three-dimensional (3D) object can be perceived as having reduced number of dimensions, in the form…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-18 Fan Zhou , Yongjun Bao , Wei Cao , Jianqiang Gu , Weili Zhang , Cheng Sun

The magic "Harry Potter's cloak" has been the dream of human beings for really long time. Recently, transformation optics inspired from the advent of metamaterials offers great versatility for manipulating wave propagation at will to create…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-01-06 X. F. Zhu , B. Liang , J. Tu , D. Zhang , J. C. Cheng

A cloak that can hide living creatures from sight is a common feature of mythology but still remains unrealized as a practical device. To preserve the phase of wave, the previous cloaking solution proposed by Pendry \emph{et al.} required…

Artificially structured metamaterials have enabled unprecedented flexibility in manipulating electromagnetic waves and producing new functionalities, including the cloak of invisibility based on coordinate transformation. Here we present…

We consider an ideal invisibility cloak which is illuminated by monochromatic light and which moves in vacuum at constant relativistic velocity with respect to the common inertial frame of light source and observer. We show that, in…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-03 Jad C. Halimeh , Robert T. Thompson , Martin Wegener

We report an invisibility carpet cloak device, which is capable of making an object undetectable by visible light. The cloak is designed using quasi conformal mapping and is fabricated in a silicon nitride waveguide on a specially developed…

M\"uhlig et. al. propose and fabricate a "cloak" comprised of nano-particles on the surface of a sub-wavelength silica sphere. However, the coating only reduces the scattered fields. This is achieved by increased absorption, such that total…

This note is a comment on a recent article [Tsakmakidis, et al., Nat Commun 10 (2019)] that presents a thought-provoking proposal to overcome the bandwidth restrictions of invisibility cloaks based on using media that support superluminal…

Three-dimensional gravitational cloaking is known to require exotic matter and energy sources, which makes it arguably physically unrealizable. On the other hand, typical astronomical observations are performed using one-dimensional…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Thanks to the pioneering studies conducted on the fields of transformation optics (TO) and metasurfaces, many unprecedented devices such as invisibility cloaks have been recently realized. However, each of these methods has some drawbacks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Mohammad Hosein Fakheri , Ali Abdolali

Transformation optics is a design tool that connects geometry of space and propagation of light. Invisibility cloaking is a corresponding benchmark example. Recent experiments at optical frequencies have demonstrated cloaking for the light…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tolga Ergin , Joachim Fischer , Martin Wegener

Invisibility or unhearability cloaks have been made possible by using metamaterials making light or sound flow around obstacle without the trace of reflections or shadows. Metamaterials are known for being flexible building units 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

The possibility of making an optically large (many wavelengths in diameter) object appear invisible has been a subject of many recent studies. Exact invisibility scenarios for large (relative to the wavelength) objects involve…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yaroslav Urzhumov , David R. Smith

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

In this paper, transformation optics is presented together with a generalization of invisibility cloaking: instead of an empty region of space, an inhomogeneous structure is transformed via Pendry's map in order to give, to any object…

Optics · Physics 2010-02-09 Andre Nicolet , Frederic Zolla , Christophe Geuzaine

Non-Euclidean geometry combined with transformation optics has recently led to the proposal of an invisibility cloak that avoids optical singularities and therefore can work, in principle, in a broad band of the spectrum [U. Leonhardt and…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-16 Tomas Tyc , Huanyang Chen , Che Ting Chan , Ulf Leonhardt

The possibility of using plasmonic covers to drastically reduce the total scattering cross section of spherical and cylindrical objects is discussed. While it is intuitively expected that increasing the physical size of an object may lead…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

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