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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. 10 …In cloaking, the hidden object is enclosed by the cloaking device, a transparent shell that guides…
  • p. 20 …the following reason: the device is designed such that light waves traveling around the object enclosed…
  • p. 23 …One can read off the required refractive index from the drawing as follows: in virtual space…
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