How Does This Invisibility Cloak Work?

How Does This Invisibility Cloak Work?

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Published on 2 Oct 2014

A new cloaking device can make an object invisible across a wide range of angles. How exactly does it work? Amy joins us to discuss.

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‘Cloaking’ device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles
http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w...
“Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways—some simple and some involving new technologies—to hide objects from view.”

Paraxial Ray Optics Cloaking
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.4705v1.pdf
“Despite much interest and progress in optical spatial cloaking, a three-dimensional (3D), transmitting, continuously multidirectional cloak in the visible regime has not yet been demonstrated.”

‘Invisibility cloak’ uses lenses to bend light
http://www.cnet.com/news/invisibility...
“One of the problems with the cloaking devices developed to date -- and it's a big one -- is that they really only work if both the viewer and whatever is being cloaked remain still.”

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