Diameter-bandwidth product limitation of isolated-object cloaking

We show that cloaking of isolated objects using transformation-based cloaks is subject to a diameter-bandwidth product limitation: as the size of the object increases, the bandwidth of good (small-cross-section) cloaking decreases inversely with the diameter, as a consequence of causality constraint...

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Main Authors: Joannopoulos, John D. (Contributor), McCauley, Alexander Patrick (Contributor), Hashemi, Hila (Author), Johnson, Steven G. (Contributor), Qui, Cheng-Wei (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-08-31T14:55:10Z.
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520 |a We show that cloaking of isolated objects using transformation-based cloaks is subject to a diameter-bandwidth product limitation: as the size of the object increases, the bandwidth of good (small-cross-section) cloaking decreases inversely with the diameter, as a consequence of causality constraints even for perfect fabrication and materials with negligible absorption. This generalizes a previous result that perfect cloaking of isolated objects over a nonzero bandwidth violates causality. Furthermore, we demonstrate broader causality-based scaling limitations on any bandwidth-averaged cloaking cross section, using complex analysis and the optical theorem to transform the frequency-averaged problem into a single-scattering problem with transformed materials. 
520 |a United States. Army Research Office. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (contract no. W911NF-07-D-0004) 
520 |a United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (grant no. FA9550-09-1-0704) 
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