Spherical cloaking using nonlinear transformations for improved segmentation into concentric isotropic coatings

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13467-13478

  Qiu, Cheng Wei ^a,b   Hu, Li ^b   Zhang, Baile ^a   Wu, Bae Ian ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INVISIBILITY CLOAKS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SPHERES;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS COATINGS; INVISIBILITY PERFORMANCE; NEAR FIELDS; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR FACTORS; OPTIMAL DISCRETIZATION; OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

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

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

EID: 68349154447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013467     Document Type: Article

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