Invisibility cloaking in a diffusive light scattering medium

Abstract

To cast no shadow in a murky medium Cloaks can hide objects from view, but what about their shadows? Schittny et al. devised a cloak to remove even the shadow of an object embedded in a murky medium in front of a computer screen (see the Perspective by Smith). They engineered a core-shell structure within which an object could be hidden and tailored the optical properties of the cloak to match that of the medium. Light was routed around the cloak, leaving no trace of the hidden object. Science , this issue p. 427 ; see also p. 384