Cloak an illusion

Abstract

An illusion counter-part displays the same scattering far-field pattern as that of a real object. In this paper, for the first time, we demonstrate that such an unreal illusion can be cloaked by an external cloak. This phenomenon shall be called “cloak an illusion”. Numerical simulations were performed to demonstrate such a phenomenon.

Keywords

transformation optics / illusion optics / external cloak

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