Publication details
Ideal-lens cloaks and new cloaking strategies
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Optics Express |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-27-26-37327 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.037327 |
| Keywords | Ideal lens; invisible cloaking; transformation optics; nested cloaks |
| Description | Previously we presented the theory of transformation optics (TO) with ideal lenses and demonstrated an example, an omnidirectional lens. Here we interpret this omnidirectional lens in two different parameter regimes as ideal-lens cloaks that employ different cloaking strategies: a standard "shrink cloak" in which objects appear smaller (ideally zero) and a novel "abyss cloak" in which interior physical-space positions are mapped to the exterior and thus are visible only from certain directions. We proceed to combine two nested abyss cloaks into another novel, omnidirectional, "bi-abyss cloak." Our work significantly extends the arsenal of cloaking strategies. |