Accurate Simulation of Ideal Circular and Elliptic Cylindrical Invisibility Cloaks

Abstract

The coordinate transformation offers a remarkable way to design cloaks that can steer electromagnetic fields so as to prevent waves from penetrating into the {\em cloaked region} (denoted by $Ω_0$, where the objects inside are invisible to observers outside). The ideal circular and elliptic cylindrical cloaked regions are blown up from a point and a line segment, respectively, so the transformed material parameters and the corresponding coefficients of the resulted equations are highly singular at the cloaking boundary $\partial Ω_0$. The electric field or magnetic field is not continuous across $\partialΩ_0.$ The imposition of appropriate {\em cloaking boundary conditions} (CBCs) to achieve perfect concealment is a crucial but challenging issue. Based upon the principle that finite electromagnetic fields in the original space must be finite in the transformed space as well, we obtain CBCs that intrinsically relate to the essential "pole" conditions of a singular transformation. We also find that for the elliptic cylindrical cloak, the CBCs should be imposed differently for the cosine-elliptic and sine-elliptic components of the decomposed fields. With these at our disposal, we can rigorously show that the governing equation in $Ω_0$ can be decoupled from the exterior region $Ω_0^c$, and the total fields in the cloaked region vanish. We emphasize that our proposal of CBCs is different from any existing ones.