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Invisibility cup

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Cloaking devices for visible light come a step closer to reality by combining the modern form of a Roman technology with ideas from ancient Greece.

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Figure 1: Lycurgus Cup (British Museum; AD fourth century).

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  1. Ulf Leonhardt is in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK. ulf@st-and.ac.uk,

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Leonhardt, U. Invisibility cup. Nature Photon 1, 207–208 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.38

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