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Transformation devices with optical nihility media and reduced realizations

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Starting from optical nihility media (ONM), we design several intriguing devices with transformation optics method in two dimensions, such as a wave splitter, a concave lens, a field rotator, a concentrator, and an invisibility cloak. Though the extreme anisotropic property of ONM hinders the fabrication of these devices. We demonstrate that those devices could be effectively realized by simplified materials with Fabry–Pérot resonances (FPs) at discrete frequencies. Moreover, we propose a reduced version of simplified materials with FPs to construct a concentrator and a rotator, which is feasible in experimental fabrications. The simulations of total scattering cross-sections confirm their functionalities.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Excellent Young Scientists (Grant No. 61322504), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB035901), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 20720170015), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 51779224, 51579221, 51279180, 61705200, and 11874311).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education & Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China

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  2. School of Science, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Qian-Nan Wu

  3. Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics and Department of Electronic Science, **amen University, **amen, 361005, China

    Yang-Yang Zhou & Huan-Yang Chen

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Xu, L., Wu, QN., Zhou, YY. et al. Transformation devices with optical nihility media and reduced realizations. Front. Phys. 14, 42501 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0891-6

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