German scientists have created a three-dimensional"invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bendinglight waves.

德国科学家近日研制出一种通过弯曲光线来隐藏物体的三维“隐形斗篷。

The findings, published in the journal Science onThursday, could in the future make it possible tomake large objects invisible, but for now theresearchers said they were not keen to speculateon possible applications.

这项发明为大型物体隐形铺平了道路，但研究人员称，目前他们并不想去猜测可能的应用形式。这一最新研究成果于上周四在《科学》期刊上发表。

For now these...cloaking devices are just a beautiful and exciting benchmark to show whattransformation optics can do, said Tolga Ergin of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

德国卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院的研究人员托尔加·埃尔金说：“目前，这种隐形斗篷只是光学领域一个‘惊艳’的开始，让人们知道转换光学可以做些什么。

 

 

Transformation optics use a class of materials called metamaterials that guide and control light.

转换光学通常使用一种“超材料来引导和控制光束。

In their study, Ergin and his colleagues used photonic crystals with a structure that looks likepiles of wood to make an invisibility device, or cloak.

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