55 research outputs found
Cylindrical Invisibility Cloak with Simplified Material Parameters is Inherently Visible
It was proposed that perfect invisibility cloaks can be constructed for
hiding objects from electromagnetic illumination (Pendry et al., Science 312,
p. 1780). The cylindrical cloaks experimentally demonstrated (Schurig et al.,
Science 314, p. 997) and proposed (Cai et al., Nat. Photon. 1, p. 224) have
however simplified material parameters in order to facilitate easier
realization as well as to avoid infinities in optical constants. Here we show
that the cylindrical cloaks with simplified material parameters inherently
allow the zeroth-order cylindrical wave to pass through the cloak as if the
cloak is made of a homogeneous isotropic medium, and thus visible. To all
high-order cylindrical waves, our numerical simulation suggests that the
simplified cloak inherits some properties of the ideal cloak, but finite
scatterings exist.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Topologically protected generation of spatiotemporal optical vortices with nonlocal spatial-mirror-symmetry-breaking metasurface
Recently nonlocal spatial-mirror-symmetry-breaking metasurfaces have been
proposed to generate spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs), which carry
transverse orbital angular momenta. Here we investigate the topological
property of the STOV generator and show that spatial mirror symmetry breaking
introduces a synthetic parameter dimension associated with the metasurface
geometry. Furthermore, we demonstrate that there are well-defined vortices
emerging with the synthetic parameter dimension, which can topologically
protect the STOV generation robustly against structural perturbations and
disorders. Since the vortices are always `created' or `annihilated' together in
pairs of opposite charges in the domain, the total
topological charge of these vortices is a conserved quantity. Our studies not
only provide a new topological perspective for STOV generation but also lay a
solid foundation for potential applications of STOV metasurfaces integrated
with other optoelectronic devices, because of their robust immunity to
fabrication defects
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