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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 86, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.013804
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- Army Research Office through the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) [W911NF-07-D-0004]
- AFOSR Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) for Complex and Robust On-chip Nanophotonics [FA9550-09-1-0704]
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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.
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