Transformation Optics, Generalized Cloaking and Superlenses

Abstract

In this paper, transformation optics is presented together with a generalization of invisibility cloaking: instead of an empty region of space, an inhomogeneous structure is transformed via Pendry's map in order to give, to any object hidden in the central hole of the cloak, a completely arbitrary appearance. Other illusion devices based on superlenses considered from the point of view of transformation optics are also discussed.

7 pages (two columns), 9 figures, to appear in IEEE Trans. Mag., invited paper in Compumag 2009 (Florianopolis, Brasil), corresponding slides available on http://www.fresnel.fr/perso/nicolet/

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