Resonant cloaking and local density of states

Abstract

We discuss methods for hiding of objects from detection by electromagnetic waves (cloaking), and also ways by which cloaked objects may be detected. The possibility of detection by means of thermal radiation emitted when electromagnetic energy is resonantly absorbed motivates the calculation of local density of states (LDOS), which controls the ability of a source inside a structured system to radiate. We give the first results of an investigation of the LDOS for systems which cloak by resonant interaction with electromagnetic fields.