Non-euclidean cloaking for light waves

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 418-426

  Tyc, Toma ^a   Chen, Huanyang ^b,d   Chan, Che Ting ^b   Leonhardt, Ulf ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic cloaking; Transformation optics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKING; LIGHT WAVE; NON-EUCLIDEAN; NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE OPTICS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77950916950     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2032514     Document Type: Article

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