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Title: Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. University of St. Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St. Andrews KY16 9SS (United Kingdom)

Maxwell's fish eye has been known to be a perfect lens within the validity range of ray optics since 1854. Solving Maxwell's equations, we show that the fish-eye lens in three dimensions has unlimited resolution for electromagnetic waves.

OSTI ID:
21388671
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.011804; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English