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IEEE Photonics Conference

Full-field broadband invisibility cloaking

Luis Romero Cortés, Reza Maram, José Azaña

Published Oct 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a new concept for broadband invisibility, enabling the first experimental demonstration of phase-preserving cloaking, undetectable by coherent spectral and temporal measurements. The concept is demonstrated by concealing a filter in a fiber-optics system.
DOI
10.1109/ipcon.2016.7831031

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