Theory of Maxwell's fish eye with mutually interacting sources and drains

Autor(en)

Ulf Leonhardt, Sahar Sahebdivan

Abstrakt

Maxwell's fish eye is predicted to image with a resolution not limited by the wavelength of light. However, interactions between sources and drains may ruin the subwavelength imaging capabilities of this and similar absolute optical instruments. Nevertheless, as we show in this paper, at resonance frequencies of the device, an array of drains may resolve a single source, or alternatively, a single drain may scan an array of sources, no matter how narrowly spaced they are. It seems that near-field information can be obtained from far-field distances.

Organisation(en)

Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation

Externe Organisation(en)

Weizmann Institute of Science

Journal

Physical Review A

Band

92

Anzahl der Seiten

8

ISSN

1050-2947

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.053848

Publikationsdatum

11-2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103021 Optik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/acee4129-46ed-4b8a-a810-349ed1f1d8d4