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 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2 Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 Crown.
Funding
The authors thank Dr. Leonid Wolfson for preparing the experimental setup. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 1871/15, 2074/15, and 2630/20), the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation NSF/BSF (Grant Nos. 2015694 and 2021811), and the Youth Foundation Project of Zhejiang Lab (Grant No. 2020MC0AA07). P.S. is thankful to the CNRS support under grant PICS-ALAMO.
Funders | Funder number |
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Youth Foundation Project of Zhejiang Lab | 2020MC0AA07 |
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation | 2015694, 2021811 |
Israel Science Foundation | 2074/15, 1871/15, 2630/20 |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |