Abstract
Invisibility cloaks for flexural waves have mostly been examined in a continuous-wave regime, while invisibility is likely to deteriorate for short pulses. Here, we propose the practical realization of a unidirectional invisibility cloak for flexural waves based on an area-preserving coordinate transformation. Time-resolved experiments reveal how the invisibility cloak deviates a pulsed plane wave from its initial trajectory and how the initial wavefront perfectly recombines behind the cloak, leaving the diamond-shaped hole invisible, notwithstanding the appearance of a forerunner. Three-dimensional full-elasticity simulations support our experimental observations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 011701 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 2 Jan 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)