Limitations of high-order transformation and incident angle on simplified invisibility cloaks

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14655-14660

  Zhang, Baile ^a   Chen, Hongsheng ^a,b   Wu, Bae Ian ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CYLINDRICAL CLOAKS; HIGH-ORDER; INCIDENT ANGLES; NON-NORMAL INCIDENCES; NORMAL INCIDENCE; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; SQUARE ROOTS;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 52049100328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014655     Document Type: Article

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