Experimental demonstration of illusion optics with “external cloaking” effects

A metamaterial “illusion optics” with “complementary medium” and “restoring medium” is designed by using inductor-capacitor (L-C) network medium. The unprecedented effects of “external cloaking” and “transforming one object to appear as another” are demonstrated experimentally. We also demonstrate that the non-resonant nature of the L-C network decreases the sensitivity of the “external cloaking” effect to the variation of the frequency and results in an acceptable bandwidth of the whole device.