Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks

  • Autor: J.C. Halimeh, T. Ergin, J. Mueller, N. Stenger, and M. Wegener
  • Quelle: Opt. Express 17, 19328 (2009)
  • Datum: 12.10.2009
  • Abstract:

    Using home-built dedicated ray-tracing software, we simulate photorealistic images of sceneries in three dimensions including dielectric carpet cloaks – i.e., continuously varying refractive-index distributions that allow for invisibility cloaking of a bump in a metallic carpet. Results for the ideal and for a simplified cloak are shown. The presented material gives a visual and intuitive impression of the performance of different arrangements and might be ideally suited for communicating the concepts of transformation optics to the general public.