title: Perfect absorbers on curved surfaces and their potential applications.
abstract: Recently perfect metamaterial absorbers triggered some fascination since they permit the observation of an extreme interaction of light with a nanostructured thin film. For the first time we evaluate here the functionality of such perfect absorbers if they are applied on curved surfaces. We probe their optical response and discuss potential novel applications. Examples are the complete suppression of back-scattered light from the covered objects, rendering it cloaked in reflection, and their action as optical black holes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitt Jena, Jena 07743, Germany. Rasoul.Alaee@uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Rasoul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alaee
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menzel
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rockstuhl
authors.forename: Falk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lederer