Invisible inhomogeneous media
We propose a general method to arbitrarily manipulate an electromagnetic wave propagating in a two-dimensional medium, without introducing any scattering. This leads to a whole class of isotropic spatially varying permittivity and permeability profiles that are invisible while shaping the field magnitude and/or phase. In addition, we propose a metamaterial structure working in the infrared that demonstrates deep sub-wavelength control of the electric field amplitude and strong reduction of the scattering. This work offers an alternative strategy to achieve invisibility with isotropic materials and paves the way for tailoring the propagation of light at the nanoscale.
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- B. Vial, Y. Liu, S. Horsley, T. Philbin, and Y. Hao, A class of invisible inhomogeneous media and the control of electromagnetic waves. Phys. Rev. B 94 (24):245119, (2016) DOI | URL
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