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- Title
Optical Surface Transformation: Changing the optical surface by homogeneous optic-null medium at will.
- Authors
Sun, Fei; He, Sailing
- Abstract
A new theory on designing electromagnetic/optical devices is proposed, namely, an optical surface transformation (OST). One arbitrary surface can establish the corresponding relationship with another surface entirely optically with an optic-null medium (ONM), (i.e. the electromagnetic wave propagates from one surface to its equivalent surface without any phase delay). Many novel optical devices can be designed by an OST with the help of an ONM. Compared with traditional devices designed by Transformation Optics, our optical surface-reshaping devices have two main advantages. Firstly, the design process is very simple (i.e. we do not need to consider any mathematics on how to make a coordinate transformation, and what we need to do is simply to design the shapes of the input and the output surfaces of the devices). Secondly, we only need one homogeneous anisotropic medium to realize all devices designed by this method. Our method will explore a new way to design novel optical devices without considering any coordinate transformations.
- Subjects
ELECTROMAGNETIC devices; OPTICAL devices; COORDINATE transformations; TRANSFORMATION optics; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL properties; OPTICAL illusions
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2015, p16032
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep16032