An experimental acoustic cloak for generating virtual images

A two-dimensional acoustic cloak is realized to generate virtual image in air. The cloak is designed to make the backscattering characteristics of a quadrangular prism the same as that of a plate based on transformation acoustics. The required anisotropic parameters of the cloak shell are obtained by acoustic metamaterial made of perforated plates, which are easy to fabricate and unitize. The measurements of the backward and near-backward scattering fields confirm the validity of the proposed cloak. Experimental results show the possibility to hide the shape of an object by changing the reflection properties by using transformation acoustics.