Shrinking-shifting and Amplifying-shifting Device Using Transformation Optics

TL;DR

This paper introduces novel transformation optics devices capable of shrinking, shifting, and amplifying objects with homogeneous, anisotropic materials, enabling size and position manipulation for applications like cloaking and illusion optics.

Contribution

It presents a new design methodology for shrinking-shifting and amplifying-shifting devices using geometric divisions and linear coordinate transformations, with improved material properties for practical implementation.

Findings

Devices can reshape object sizes and locations inside the core region.

Proposed devices exhibit non-negative, homogeneous, and anisotropic material properties.

Active scatterers validate the functionality of the devices.

Abstract

Based on transformation optics (TO), this paper uses geometric divisions and linear coordinate transformations to design shrinking-shifting - and reshaping, and amplifying-shifting - and reshaping devices. The proposed devices can reshape the sizes and locations of the wrapped-objects inside the core-region. The shrinking-shifting device shrinks the larger object into a smaller one and shifts it to different location, whereas the shrinking-reshaping device can generate a smaller-size image with different shape located at different location. In contrast to previously designed shrinking devices, the real object wrapped inside the proposed core-region and the transformed object contains the same material properties, and the location-shifting is another feature. Here, the shifting-region is located inside the physical-space boundaries to achieve the non-negative, homogeneous, and anisotropic material properties of the proposed device, which are easier for real implementations. Thus, we further verified this concept with the amplifying-shifting and -reshaping devices for visually transformation of smaller object into bigger one placed at different location and position. We also applied active scatterer to further validate the working functionality of proposed devices. In addition, the proposed devices behave like the concentrator and or rotator effect in the absence of any scatterer. Our findings highlight the role of TO, suggesting directions for future research on bi-functional devices that will be useful for shrinking and amplifying devices, illusion optics, camouflage, and object protection etc. Keywords: amplifying, reshaping, shrinking, transformation optics, invisibility cloaks