Ever since invisibility cloaking has left the realm of fiction and been demonstrated for microwave radiation, cloaking in the visible has been the aim. Having reached the near-infrared, we might be there soon.
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Leonhardt, U. Towards invisibility in the visible. Nature Mater 8, 537–538 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2472
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