Inverse design mechanism of cylindrical cloaks without knowledge of the required coordinate transformation

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1079-1082

  Qiu, Cheng Wei ^a   Novitsky, Andrey ^b   Gao, Lei ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; INTEGRAL FORM; INVERSE DESIGNS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLANE-WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 77956000756     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.001079     Document Type: Article

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