Two-dimensional electromagnetic cloaks with non-conformal inner and outer boundaries

Transformation optics is extended to the design of two-dimensional (2D) cloaks with non-conformal inner and outer boundaries. General and explicit expressions of the transformed medium parameters are derived, which are of the utmost importance in a cloak design procedure. A 2D cloak with irregular and non-conformal boundaries is designed as an example. Full-wave simulations combined with Huygens' Principle are applied to verify the invisibility of the cloak to external incident waves. All the theoretical and numerical results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The generalization in this Paper highly improves the flexibilities for cloak design. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America