Abstract
In this paper, analytical calculation has been provided to show illusion perception in electromagnetics expander. For this end, a precise analytical solution has been done for a scattered wave from the expander including an object in the core medium. Also, this analytical calculation has been done for a bare transformed object with different size and constitute parameters (CPs). Illusion perception, in the far field, can be illustrated by comparing the calculated scattered field patterns (SFP) of the object placed inside the expander with SFP of the bare transformed object. Moreover, the same calculation and comparison has been done for nearfield SFP. In continuation, for precise deduction, radar cross sections (RCSs) of both objects have been calculated and plotted using MATLAB. Well functionality in illusion perception has been obtained using comparisons in both analytical SFPs parts and RCSs parts.
Introduction
Transformation optics theory (Leonhardt, 2006; Pendry et al., 2006) was introduced in 2006, and since then it has attracted a great deal of scientific attention in theoretical and experimental (Schurig et al., 2006; Chen and Chan, 2007; Chen et al., 2008; Kwon and Werner, 2008; Luo et al., 2008; Rahm et al., 2008; Yan et al., 2008; Chen et al., 2009; Cheng et al., 2009; Lai et al., 2009; Narimanov and Kildishev, 2009; Roberts et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2010a; Chen et al., 2010b; Jiang et al., 2010; Jiang et al., 2011; Li et al., 2011; Mei et al., 2011; Li et al., 2013; Jiang et al., 2014; Sadeghi et al., 2014; Sadeghi et al., 2015a; Sadeghi et al., 2015b; Xu and Chen, 2015; Forouzeshfard and Hosseini Farzad, 2018; Liu et al., 2019; Sadeghi, 2020; Zhao et al., 2022) aspects. This theory applies coordinate transformation and metamaterials to provide desired form variations for the CP to manipulate electromagnetic waves path and direct it in the chosen manner. Hence, this theory provides a great ability to design and construct new composite artificial devices using metamaterials with various extraordinary applications. Among all these different devices, some of them also exhibit interesting illusory optical properties (Lai et al., 2009; Jiang et al., 2010; Li et al., 2011; Forouzeshfard and Hosseini Farzad, 2018; Liu et al., 2019; Sadeghi, 2020; Zhao et al., 2022). In this paper we use analytical calculation for illusion perception in transformation-based expander. For this purpose, in next section we present a transformation function to create and design a wave expander. Next, we provide a close solution in wave expansion form for SFP of an object that has been placed in the core medium of transformation-based expander. In order to show the illusion effect of this device, we compare this SFP of the object inside the expander with the SFP of a transformed bare object. Also, to illustrate the illusion effect more precisely, we provide a comparison in RCSs of both objects. Finally, we provide the conclusion in the end.
General Preliminarily
We start with a transformation function that expands the region of virtual space into region of real space as shown in Figure 1. This function can be provided as follow,Where r and show the real and virtual space respectively.
FIGURE 1
schematic functionality of transformation function that expand (A) virtual region [0, c] to (B) real space [0, a].
According transformation optics theory we have CP of core medium i.e., of wave expander as follow,
Likewise, for surrounding shell i.e., , of wave expander we have,
Now with these core and shell parameters and using an incidenting TE-z plane wave, the functionality of the device can be plotted as shown in Figure 2. The field distribution pattern of a TE incident plane wave with working frequency 1 GHZ, , and has been plotted in Figure 2 the device remains invisible and the wave expands in the core medium. However, this device can be used to create an illusion that has been presented in the next section.
FIGURE 2
field distribution of a TE incident wave with working frequency 1GHZ, , and.
RCS Approach
In this section we focus on illusion perception using exact solutions in the wave equation of scattering waves. For this end we put a cylindrical object with radius and relative CP, and in core medium in order to see the field pattern. Noteworthy we choose the sample in cylindrical shape to provide an exact analytical solution in the wave equation. In the following, we provide a solution in illusion scattering for far field and near field separately.
Consider a TE plane wave propagating in x direction as shown in Figure 3. Hence, we can present wave expansion outside and inside the device using boundary condition (BC). This TE plane wave can be formulated as below,Where and are the wave number and frequency of incidenting waves in the host, respectively. also , is the amplitude of incidenting wave. We calculate the total field in all regions using general wave equation as below:
FIGURE 3
Schematic plan for a cylindrical sample with radius . and are the CP of the object that placed in core medium of expander and illuminated by planewave.
For the electric field outside the device i.e., region0 or , we have incidenting wave and scattering wave as below,Where and are Bessel and Hankel function of first kind, respectively. is the unknown expansion coefficients of scattered part of the total field outside the device. Also, inside the device in shell region i.e., region1, we can present,
For the core medium i.e., region2, we have the wave as follow,And finally, for inside the sample i.e., region3, that has been inserted inside the core medium we have,Where in Eqs 9–11 and are unknown expansion coefficients. Also , and are the wave vectors in corresponding regions. Now by matching of the boundary condition (BC) for continuity of electric and magnetic field at all interfaces we calculate the unknown coefficients. For three interfaces, as shown in Figure 3, we can provide three equations for continuity of electric field and three equations for continuity of magnetic field using .
For continuity of electric fields at ,
For continuity of electric fields at ,And for continuity of electric fields at boundary of object inside the core medium, ,
We use similar BCs for continuity of magnetic fields at all boundaries.
For continuity of magnetic fields at ,
For continuity of magnetic fields at ,And for continuity of magnetic fields at boundary of object inside the core medium, ,
Finally, we can obtain the unknown coefficients in all regions with recursive procedure (Cheng et al., 2009) using MATLAB code. Hence, we can plot the electric field in all regions as shown in Figure 4A. Moreover, we can achieve , the scattering coefficient of wave in the host medium in Eq. 5, in order to plot RCS in the end of this paper.
FIGURE 4
(A) SFP of object placed in core medium of expander illuminated by far field, with , and and as object radius. The object here is PEC. and (B) SPF of bare transformed object illuminated by far field, with radius . In both plot working frequency is 1 GHZ.
Now to comprehend and understand the illusion perception, similar to the scattering calculation for the expander device, we also provide the same calculation for SFP of bare transformed cylinder as shown in Figure 5 with transformed size and CP. For the transformed case we use a bare cylinder with radius and CP, and illuminate by TE plane wave. We can provide the wave expansion outside of sample ,Where is the scattering coefficient of wave in region0. And for inside the sample ,
FIGURE 5
Schematic plan for bare transformed cylinder with radius . and are the CP of the bare transformed object that illuminated by planewave.
In this case we have only one interface and for continuity of electric field and magnetic field we can derive matching boundary condition as follow.
For the electric fields at the boundary ,And for magnetic fields at the boundary ,
Similar to calculations in the expander case we calculate the unknown coefficients using recursive code and plot the electric inside and outside of the object as shown in Figure 4B. Illusion perception can be understood by comparing SFP in Figure 4A and SFP in Figure 4B in region . In region SFP of both cases are the same as each other. Hence, we can say qualitatively, the expander creates the same illusion as a bare transformed object with transformed size and CP parameters.
Now for more consideration we also provide the same calculation for illusion perception using near field source. For this part we illuminate both the expander and bare transformed object by a point source located near the device () with working frequency 1 GHZ. Hence, we provide the total electric field in all regions.
For the expander calculation, outside of device, we can derive total electric field as follow.Where is the scattering parameter in region0. For electric field in surrounding shell region, ,
For core region, ,And finally, for inside the object, ,
Similar to far field calculation we use BC for continuity of electric and magnetic field at all interfaces and using recursive method (Cheng et al., 2009) we can derive all unknown parameters and plot the electric field in all regions as showed in Figure 6A.
FIGURE 6
(A) SFP of object placed in core medium of expander and illuminated by nearfield with , and and as object radius. The object here is PEC. and (B) SPF of bare transformed object and illuminated by nearfield with radius . In both plot working frequency is 1 GHZ and the point source located in.
Likewise, to understand and comprehend the illusion effect we have the same calculation for the bare transformed cylinder that is illuminated by point source. we can calculate the wave outside the cylinder as follow.Where is the coefficient parameter of the scattering wave and is the location of the point source. Also, for inside the cylinder we can present the following equation,
Similar to far field derivation we use a recursive method to calculate unknown parameters and plot the field inside and outside the cylinder as shown in Figure 6B. Also, illusion perception can be understood by comparing SFP in Figure 6A and Figure 6B i.e., the SFPs in the region show the same pattern in both cases qualitatively.
For more precise consideration we provide a qualitative approach. RCS is an indicator of far field scattering, SO, we use RCS plot to compare the both scattering far fields to prove the perfect illusion perception. we use scattering parameters of both object in far field to plot RCS of both scatterers using scattering formula,
We plot the RSCs in Figures 7A, B for expander and bare transformed cylinder, respectively. Both RSCs of samples illustrate the same scattering effects and hence, perfect illusion can be realized.
FIGURE 7
(A) RCS (scale of 0.1 m) of a cylinder placed in expander (B) RCS (scale of 0.1 m) of bare transformed cylinder.
Conclusion
Although the wave expander transformation optic-base manipulates electromagnetic wave propagation to expand the wave in core medium, it has some illusory effects that can change the radar cross section of objects. In this paper we used scattering theory to provide full calculations and close solutions to show illusion effects of this device. For this end we compared the scattered waves from both the bare transformed object and object placed in the expander. Moreover, we provided a comparison in RCS for both objects. The results, RCSs and SFPs for both objects, confirmed the perfect illusion effects. Expander illustrates perfect illusion perception in the size of objects.
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Author contributions
MMS conceived the idea and did the theoretical calculations and the numerical simulations. MMS wrote and revised the manuscript.
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Summary
Keywords
illusion optics, radar cross section, electromagnetics wave expander, scattering theory, transformation optics
Citation
Sadeghi MM (2022) Radar Cross Section Approach in Illusion Effects of Transformation Optics-Based Expander. Front. Mater. 9:937437. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2022.937437
Received
06 May 2022
Accepted
06 June 2022
Published
22 June 2022
Volume
9 - 2022
Edited by
Fei Sun, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Reviewed by
Shuomin Zhong, Ningbo University, China
Yichao Liu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
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