Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions

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Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) – Published 25 January 2010; Erratum Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

Abstract

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.

Received 3 November 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.011804

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Erratum: Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions [Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) (2010)]

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

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Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

University of St. Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom

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Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) – Published 25 January 2010; Erratum Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

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Erratum: Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions [Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) (2010)]

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

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Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) – Published 25 January 2010; Erratum Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

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Erratum: Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions [Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) (2010)]

Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. A 84, 049902 (2011)

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