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We are interested in a time harmonic acoustic problem in a waveguide with locally perturbed sound hard walls. We consider a setting where an observer generates incident plane waves at $-infty$ and probes the resulting scattered field at $-infty$ and $+infty$. Practically, this is equivalent to measure the reflection and transmission coefficients respectively denoted $R$ and $T$. In [9], a technique has been proposed to construct waveguides with smooth walls such that $R=0$ and $|T|=1$ (non reflection). However the approach fails to ensure $T=1$ (perfect transmission without phase shift). In this work, first we establish a result explaining this observation. More precisely, we prove that for wavenumbers smaller than a given bound $k_{star}$ depending on the geometry, we cannot have $T=1$ so that the observer can detect the presence of the defect if he/she is able to measure the phase at $+infty$. In particular, if the perturbation is smooth and small (in amplitude and in width), $k_{star}$ is very close to the threshold wavenumber. Then, in a second step, we change the point of view and, for a given wavenumber, working with singular perturbations of the domain, we show how to obtain $T=1$. In this case, the scattered field is exponentially decaying both at $-infty$ and $+infty$. We implement numerically the method to provide examples of such undetectable defects.
Acoustic cloaks that make object undetectable to sound waves have potential applications in a variety of scenarios and have received increasing interests recently. However, the experimental realization of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic cloak that works within broad ranges of operating frequency and incident angle still remains a challenge despite the paramount importance for the practical application of cloaking devices. Here we report the design and experimental demonstration of the first 3D broadband cloak capable of cancelling the scattering field near curved surfaces. Unlike the ground cloaks that only work in the presence of a flat boundary, the proposed scheme can render the invisibility effect for an arbitrarily curved boundary. The designed cloak simply comprises homogeneous positive-index anisotropic materials, with parameters completely independent of either the cloaked object or the boundary. With the flexibility of applying to arbitrary boundaries and the potential of being extended to yield 3D acoustic illusion effects, our method may take major a step toward the application of acoustic cloaks in reality and open the avenue to build other acoustic devices with versatile functionalities.
Recent theoretical advances applied to metamaterials have opened new avenues to design a coating that hides objects from electromagnetic radiation and even the sight. Here, we propose a new design of cloaking devices that creates perfect invisibility in isotropic media. A combination of positive and negative refractive indices, called plus-minus construction, is essential to achieve perfect invisibility (i.e., no time delay and total absence of reflection). Contrary to the common understanding that between two isotropic materials having different refractive indices the electromagnetic reflection is unavoidable, our method shows that surprisingly the reflection phenomena can be completely eliminated. The invented method, different from the classical impedance matching, may also find electromagnetic applications outside of cloaking devices, wherever distortions are present arising from reflections.
This paper presents a simple Fourier-matching method to rigorously study resonance frequencies of a sound-hard slab with a finite number of arbitrarily shaped cylindrical holes of diameter ${cal O}(h)$ for $hll1$. Outside the holes, a sound field can be expressed in terms of its normal derivatives on the apertures of holes. Inside each hole, since the vertical variable can be separated, the field can be expressed in terms of a countable set of Fourier basis functions. Matching the field on each aperture yields a linear system of countable equations in terms of a countable set of unknown Fourier coefficients. The linear system can be reduced to a finite-dimensional linear system based on the invertibility of its principal submatrix, which is proved by the well-posedness of a closely related boundary value problem for each hole in the limiting case $hto 0$, so that only the leading Fourier coefficient of each hole is preserved in the finite-dimensional system. The resonance frequencies are those making the resulting finite-dimensional linear system rank deficient. By regular asymptotic analysis for $h ll 1$, we get a systematic asymptotic formula for characterizing the resonance frequencies by the 3D subwavelength structure. The formula reveals an important fact that when all holes are of the same shape, the Q-factor for any resonance frequency asymptotically behaves as ${cal O}(h^{-2})$ for $hll1$ with its prefactor independent of shapes of holes.
The aim of an invisibility device is to guide light around any object put inside, being able to hide objects from sight. In this work, we propose a novel design of dielectric invisibility media based on negative refraction and optical conformal mapping that seems to create perfect invisibility. This design has some advantages and more relaxed constraints compared with already proposed schemes. In particular, it represents an example where the time delay in a dielectric invisibility device is zero. Furthermore, due to impedance matching of negatively refracting materials, the reflection should be close to zero. These findings strongly indicate that perfect invisibility with optically isotropic materials is possible. Finally, the area of the invisible space is also discussed.
We investigate a time-harmonic wave problem in a waveguide. We work at low frequency so that only one mode can propagate. It is known that the scattering matrix exhibits a rapid variation for real frequencies in a vicinity of a complex resonance located close to the real axis. This is the so-called Fano resonance phenomenon. And when the geometry presents certain properties of symmetry, there are two different real frequencies such that we have either $R=0$ or $T=0$, where $R$ and $T$ denote the reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, we prove that without the assumption of symmetry of the geometry, quite surprisingly, there is always one real frequency for which we have $T=0$. In this situation, all the energy sent in the waveguide is backscattered. However in general, we do not have $R=0$ in the process. We provide numerical results to illustrate our theorems.