Broadband invisibility by non-Euclidean cloaking.
Invisibility and negative refraction are both applications of transformation optics where the material of a device performs a coordinate transformation for electromagnetic fields. The device creates the illusion that light propagates through empty flat space, whereas in physical space, light is bent around a hidden interior or seems to run backward in space or time. All of the previous proposals for invisibility require materials with extreme properties. Here we show that transformation optics of a curved, non-Euclidean space (such as the surface of a virtual sphere) relax these requirements and can lead to invisibility in a broad band of the spectrum.
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Physics Department, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore. ulf@st-andrews.ac.uk
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