title: Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks.
abstract: Using home-built dedicated ray-tracing software, we simulate photorealistic images of sceneries in three dimensions including dielectric carpet cloaks--i.e., continuously varying refractive-index distributions that allow for invisibility cloaking of a bump in a metallic carpet. Results for the ideal and for a simplified cloak are shown. The presented material gives a visual and intuitive impression of the performance of different arrangements and might be ideally suited for communicating the concepts of transformation optics to the general public.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewandte Physik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
authors.forename: Jad C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Halimeh
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ergin
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mueller
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stenger
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wegener
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005430:Floors and Floorcoverings; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity