Watching outside while under a carpet cloak of invisibility
arXiv:1009.2849 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.84.046607
Abstract
We demonstrate in this letter a unique approach for watching outside while hiding in a carpet cloaking based on transformation optics. Unlike conventional carpet cloaking, which screens all the incident electromagnetic waves, we break the cloak and allow incident light get into the carpet. Hence outside information is detected inside the cloak. To recover the invisible cloaking, complementary techniques are applied in the broken space. Consequently, a hiding-inside-and-watching-outside (HIWO) carpet cloak is sewed, which works as a perfectly invisible cloaking and allows surveillance of the outside at the same time. Our work provides a strategy for ideal cloak with "hiding" and "watching" functions simultaneously.
arXiv comment18 pages, 4 figures. This is the second version of arXiv:1009.2849, which was submitted on Sept.15, 2010
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