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Delay-bandwidth and delay-loss limitations for cloaking of large objects
Hila Hashemi1, Baile Zhang, J D Joannopoulos
1Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
We show that the difficulty of cloaking is fundamentally limited by delay-loss and delay-bandwidth limitations that worsen as the size of the object to be cloaked increases relative to the wavelength, using a simple model of ground-plane cloaking. These limitations must be considered when scaling experimental cloaking demonstrations up from wavelength-scale objects.
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