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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Invisibilty Cloaking Theory And Experiments

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 2 March 2010 and produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, is a technical survey of invisibility. It covers camouflage, including stealth aircraft and optical camouflage, then transparency, cloaking by coordinate transformation, metamaterials and non-Euclidean broadband cloaking. It concludes that perfect cloaking is impossible but imperfect microwave cloaks are within reach of present technology. Whether cloaking will work at visible wavelengths remains unclear.

  • p. 7 …As the cloak carries the projected image of the background, the person seems to disappear, but…
  • p. 8 …air, the person would become transparent and disappear from view-like the Invisible Man. Some animals…
  • p. 9 …3 Here, an optical antiobject is placed beside the object one wishes to make disappear. The…
  • p. 20 …So, to see things disappear in a cloaking device, one should wear tinted glasses of the…
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