Response of dispersive cylindrical cloaks to a nonmonochromatic plane wave

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2117-2124

  Blanchard, Cédric ^a,b   Wu, Bae Ian ^b   Porti, Jorge Andres ^a   Chen, Hongsheng ^b,c   Zhang, Baile ^b   Morente, Juan Antonio ^a   Salinas, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DELAY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CYLINDRICAL CLOAKS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REPRESENTATIONS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; OBSERVATION ANGLE; TANGIBLE EVIDENCE; TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE; TRANSMISSION LINE MODEL METHODS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 70450187524     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.002117     Document Type: Article

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