Illusion optics: The optical transformation of an object into another object

Abstract

We propose to use transformation optics to generate a general illusion such that an arbitrary object appears to be like some other object of our choice. This is achieved by using a remote device that transforms the scattered light outside a virtual boundary into that of the object chosen for the illusion, regardless of the profile of the incident wave. This type of illusion device also enables people to see through walls. Our work extends the concept of cloaking as a special form of illusion to the wider realm of illusion optics.

Including a paper and its auxiliary material

References in corpus (14)

• Optical Cloaking with Non-Magnetic Metamaterials
• Hiding Under the Carpet: a New Strategy for Cloaking
• Design of Electromagnetic Cloaks and Concentrators Using Form-Invariant Coordinate Transformations of Maxwell's Equations
• General Relativity in Electrical Engineering
• A complementary media invisibility cloak that can cloak objects at a distance outside the cloaking shell
• Optical design of reflectionless complex media by finite embedded coordinate transformations
• Focussing Light Using Negative Refraction
• Superscatterer: Enhancement of scattering with complementary media
• Impedance-matched Hyperlens
• A metamaterial frequency-selective super-absorber that has absorbing cross section significantly bigger than the geometric cross section
• Cylindrical Superlens by a Coordinate Transformation
• Electromagnetic wave manipulation using layered systems
• Near Field Lenses in Two Dimensions
• Reshape the perfect electrical conductor cylinder at will

Cited by in corpus (83)

• Experimental demonstration of a multiphysics cloak: manipulating heat flux and electric current simultaneously
• Source illusion devices for flexural Lamb waves using elastic metasurfaces
• Trapping light by mimicking gravitational lensing
• Experimental Verification of 3D Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space
• Experimental realization of a broadband illusion optics device
• Tunable Graphene Metasurface Reflectarray for Cloaking, Illusion and Focusing
• Design method for quasi-isotropic transformation materials based on inverse Laplace's equation with sliding boundaries
• Customised broadband metamaterial absorbers for arbitrary polarisation
• Gauge Field Optics with Anisotropic Media
• Illusion Media: Generating Virtual Objects Using Realizable Metamaterials
• Enhancing Optical Gradient Forces with Metamaterials
• SUSY-inspired one-dimensional transformation optics
• Plasmonic Cloaking of Cylinders: Finite Length, Oblique Illumination and Cross-Polarization Coupling
• Definite photon deflections of topological defects in metasurfaces and symmetry-breaking phase transitions with material loss
• Schrodinger's Hat: Electromagnetic, acoustic and quantum amplifiers via transformation optics
• Experimentally demonstrated an unidirectional electromagnetic cloak designed by topology optimization
• Exterior optical cloaking and illusions by using active sources: a boundary element perspective
• Three-dimensional Electromagnetic Void Space
• Manipulating local heat flux with different patterns
• Simultaneously realizing thermal and electromagnetic cloaking by multi-physical null medium
• Supersymmetric transparent optical intersections
• Controlling Surface Plasmons Through Covariant Transformation of the Spin-Dependent Geometric Phase Between Curved Metamaterials
• Anti-mirror effect: A perfect lens brings a brighter feature
• Conformal optical black hole for cavity
• A General Class of Metamaterial Transformation Slabs
• Creating electromagnetic cavities using transformation optics
• Transformation elastodynamics and active exterior acoustic cloaking
• A simple and versatile analytical approach for planar metamaterials
• Confining Light in Deep Subwavelength Electromagnetic Cavities
• Cloaks, editors, and bubbles: applications of spacetime transformation theory
• A conformal mapping approach to broadband nonlinear optics on chip
• Power scattering and absorption mediated by cloak/anti-cloak interactions: A transformation-optics route towards invisible sensors
• Carpet cloaking on a dielectric half-space
• Magnetic illusion: transforming a magnetic object into another object by negative permeability
• Constraint condition on transformed relation for generalized acoustics
• Coherent perfect absorber and laser in purely imaginary conjugate metamaterials
• Transformation devices: carpets in space and space-time
• Active thermal metasurfaces for remote heating/cooling by mimicking negative thermal conductivity
• Non-singular cloaks allow mimesis
• Complete characterization and synthesis of the response function of elastodynamic networks
• Exterior cloaking with active sources in two dimensional acoustics
• Transformation Optics, Generalized Cloaking and Superlenses
• Engineering the accurate distortion of an object's temperature-distribution signature
• Negative permeability in magnetostatics and its experimental demonstration
• Metamaterials Mimicking Dynamic Spacetime, D-brane and Noncommutativity in String Theory
• Active Thermal Cloaking and Mimicking
• Brewster effect when approaching exceptional points of degeneracy: Epsilon-near-zero behavior
• Watching outside while under a carpet cloak of invisibility
• A concentrator for static magnetic field
• The borderlines of the invisibility and visibility for Calderon's inverse problem
• Transformation-optics modeling of 3D-printed freeform waveguides
• A general cloak to shift the scattering of different objects
• Acoustic cloaking and mirages with flying carpets
• Acoustic Holographic Rendering with Two-dimensional Metamaterial-based Passive Phased Array
• Material- and geometry-independent multishell cloaking device
• Cloaking and anamorphism for light and mass diffusion
• Determination of the quantized topological magneto-electric effect in topological insulators from Rayleigh scattering
• Photonic crystal optics in cold atomic gases
• Surface plasmons in coaxial metamaterial cables
• Active Huygens' Box: Metasurface-Enabled Arbitrary Electromagnetic Wave Generation Inside a Cavity
• A possible approach on optical analogues of gravitational attractors
• Generation of J0-Bessel-Gauss Beam by an heterogeneous refractive index map
• Reversible Wavefront Shaping Between Gaussian and Airy Beams By Mimicking Gravitational Field
• Occluded object reconstruction for first responders with augmented reality glasses using conditional generative adversarial networks
• An analytical study of mismatched complementary media
• Inverse problem in transformation optics
• A non-reflecting metamaterial slab under the finite-embedded coordinate transformation
• Etendue and Radiance Conservation in Transformation Optics: Strict Analytical Bounds on Field Enhancement
• Concealing arbitrary objects remotely with multi-folded transformation optics
• Electromagnetic Illusion in Smart Environments
• The domain and property illusion of anomalous anisotropic electric conductivity
• Visually moving objects to an arbitrary distance by a simple shifting cloak
• Geodesic conformal transformation optics: manipulating light with continuous refractive index profile
• Broadband phase-preserved optical elevator
• On conformal lenses
• Bidirectional acoustic negative refraction based on a pair of metasurfaces with both local and global PT-symmetries
• Scattering-free routing of surface plasmon polariton waves with optical null medium
• Transformation Optics for the Modelling of Waves in a Universe with Nontrivial Topology
• On the active manipulation of EM fields in open waveguides
• An acoustic invisible gateway
• Dielectric Optical-Controlled Magnifying Lens by Nonlinear Negative Refraction
• Cloaking using complementary media for the Helmholtz equation and a three spheres inequality for second order elliptic equations
• On a pragmatic approach optical analogues of gravitational attractors