title: Cloaking a sensor via transformation optics.
abstract: Ideal transformation optics cloaking at positive frequency, besides rendering the cloaked region invisible to detection by scattering of incident waves, also shields the region from those same waves. In contrast, we demonstrate that approximate cloaking permits a strong coupling between the cloaked and uncloaked regions; careful choice of parameters allows this coupling to be amplified, leading to effective cloaks with degraded shielding. The sensor modes we describe are close to but distinct from interior resonances, which destroy cloaking. As one application, we describe how to use transformation optics to hide sensors in the cloaked region and yet enable the sensors to efficiently measure incident waves on the exterior of the cloak, an effect similar to the plasmon-based approach of Alù and Engheta.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
authors.forename: Allan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Greenleaf
authors.forename: Yaroslav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kurylev
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lassas
authors.forename: Gunther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Uhlmann