Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1178-1181
Abstract
Cloaking devices enabling to hide objects from external observers have numerous
potential applications but still face challenges in realization, especially in the visible spectral
range. In particular, inherent losses and extreme parameters of metamaterials required for the
cloaking are the limiting factors. Here, we propose and demonstrate numerically nearly per-
fect concealing of objects in ENZ-metamaterials (homogeneous and layered realizations) acting
alignment-free scattering suppression covers. The suppression of visibility relies on the recon-
struction of a plane wavefront after scattering of light by an object placed inside an anisotropic
metamaterial with vanishing permittivity along one of the major crystallographic directions
(uniaxial ENZ metamaterial). We also consider a realistic realization of the metamaterial as
a metal-dielectric multilayer and demonstrate the cloaking in forward and backward directions
with perfectly preserved wavefronts and less than 10% absolute intensity change.
Citation
Yuri Kivshar,
Pavel A. Belov,
and
Aleksandr Sergeevich Shalin,
"Suppression of Light Scattering with ENZ-metamaterials," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1178-1181