On the cloaking effects associated with anomalous localized resonance

Abstract

Regions of anomalous localized resonance, such as occurring near superlenses, are shown to lead to cloaking effects. This occurs when the resonant field generated by a polarizable line or point dipole acts back on the polarizable line or point dipole and effectively cancels the field acting on it from outside sources. Cloaking is proved in the quasistatic limit for finite collections of polarizable line dipoles that all lie within a specific distance from a coated cylinder having a shell permittivity where is the permittivity of the surrounding matrix, and is the core permittivity. Cloaking is also shown to extend to the Veselago superlens outside the quasistatic regime: a polarizable line dipole located less than a distance d /2 from the lens, where d is the thickness of the lens, will be cloaked due to the presence of a resonant field in front of the lens. Also a polarizable point dipole near a slab lens will be cloaked in the quasistatic limit.