Cloaking: analytical theory for benchmark structures
Yury Shestopalov
Abstract
Proceeding from the scattered field expansion in cylindrical harmonics, we define partial invisibility or partial cloaking as suppression of finitely many lowest-order field harmonics. We show that for benchmark structures (a dielectric rod and a perfectly conducting cylinder of circular cross section covered by a concentric dielectric layer), such multiple suppression can be achieved. For this purpose, we prove the solvability and explicitly determine the solution of the corresponding equation system which provide vanishing of the lowest-order field expansion coefficients and the resulting simultaneous suppression of up to five lowest-order scattered harmonics. We investigate the character and qualitative properties of partial invisibility and partial cloaking by analyzing the scattered field patterns.