Perfect imaging: they do not do it with mirrors

Ulf Leonhardt; Sahar Sahebdivan

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/13/2/024016

Perfect imaging: they do not do it with mirrors

Ulf Leonhardt, Sahar Sahebdivan

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

Imaging with a spherical mirror in empty space is compared with the case when the mirror is filled with Maxwell's fish eye medium. Exact time-dependent solutions of Maxwell's equations show that perfect imaging is not achievable with an electrical ideal mirror on its own, but it is with Maxwell's fish eye in the regime where it implements a curved geometry for full electromagnetic waves.

Original language	English
Article number	024016
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Optics
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/13/2/024016
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2011

Keywords

Perfect imaging without negative refraction
Non-Euclidean transformation optics
Transformation optics
Metamaterials
Hyperlens
Fields
Light

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