Taylor & Francis International Year of Light

Welcome to the Taylor & Francis International Year of Light Competition.

Each month we're running a competition alongside our article collection. Simply answer the following questions about the article 'Transformation Optics and Cloaking' from Contemporary Physics for a chance to win a $100 Amazon voucher and a copy of Nonlinear Optics: Principles and Applications!

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What does this article say is one of the major disadvantages of the carpet cloak?

It requires a medium that is highly anisotropic.

It requires a medium that is not anisotropic.

It only works over a limited bandwidth, dictated by the use of resonant metamaterials, the cloak and the object it shrouds must be stationary.

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What number completes this sentence?

Whilst spacetime cloaking might make the ultimate bank heist possible, the reality is the concealment of an event lasting a mere XX ps is all that has been achieved.

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What does figure 3 show?

(I) Experimental configuration and (II) experimental results for cloaking an event in spacetime.

Line scans of intensity (shown in false colour) across the photonic structure (x) as a function of wavlength for fixed height (y) for normally incident unpolarised light.

Theoretical simulation and experimental realisation of the electromagnetic cloak.

The experimental realisation of the meta-material with ‘cloak parameters’ of Equation (6)

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Lastly, please choose the article that you would most like to be made free to access until 31st December 2015

"Solution-processible corrugated structure and scattering layer for enhanced light extraction from organic light-emitting diodes" by Woo Jin Hyun et al. Journal of Information Display (2012)

"Fiber-Optic Sucrose Sensor Based on Mode-Filtered Light Detection" by Jun Zhang et al. Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry (2013)

"The astrophysical environment of the solar birthplace" by Jonathan P. Williams. Contemporary Physics (2010)

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*The International Year of Light is a UNESCO commemorative event.

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What does this article say is one of the major disadvantages of the carpet cloak?

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What number completes this sentence? Whilst spacetime cloaking might make the ultimate bank heist possible, the reality is the concealment of an event lasting a mere XX ps is all that has been achieved.

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What does figure 3 show?

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Finally, please enter your details below.

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Lastly, please choose the article that you would most like to be made free to access until 31st December 2015

What number completes this sentence?

Whilst spacetime cloaking might make the ultimate bank heist possible, the reality is the concealment of an event lasting a mere XX ps is all that has been achieved.