Real Life Invisibility Cloaks May be Possible Thanks to “Spectral Cloaking”

It’s easy to see a number of nefarious uses for devices that allow you to walk the earth undetected, from traversing the grounds of Hogwarts after lights out to liberating the contents of a nearby bank vault. But early stage invisibility cloaks may offer a number of tangible, Muggle-world applications as well.

That’s according to a team of researchers behind a new paper in the latest issue of Optica. In the paper, researchers say that their new method of manipulating lightwaves opens the door to tech that can cloak a three dimensional object from all sides, leading to vastly more sophisticated sensors and communication tools in the process.

Read More… Real Life Invisibility Cloaks May be Possible Thanks to “Spectral Cloaking”