TY - GEN
T1 - Non-covariance and unfaithfulness in projective spacetime transformation optics
AU - Thompson, Robert T.
AU - Fathi, Mohsen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/14
Y1 - 2017/11/14
N2 - Developments in Transformation Optics (TO) have drawn heavily on ideas from general relativity. This motivates a line of inquiry that seeks a deeper, more rigorous understanding of the spacetime covariant formulation of electrodynamics in media, and generalized ideas from general relativity that can further enhance TO. We show that basing TO on the idea of metric transformations is not covariant and introduces distortions to the desired behaviour of a light beam, but that these issues can be resolved by keeping the metric fixed.
AB - Developments in Transformation Optics (TO) have drawn heavily on ideas from general relativity. This motivates a line of inquiry that seeks a deeper, more rigorous understanding of the spacetime covariant formulation of electrodynamics in media, and generalized ideas from general relativity that can further enhance TO. We show that basing TO on the idea of metric transformations is not covariant and introduces distortions to the desired behaviour of a light beam, but that these issues can be resolved by keeping the metric fixed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85040510073
U2 - 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2017.8107808
DO - 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2017.8107808
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040510073
T3 - 2017 11th International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2017
SP - 349
EP - 351
BT - 2017 11th International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2017
Y2 - 28 August 2017 through 2 September 2017
ER -