Perfect imaging with geodesic waveguides

Abstract: 

Transformation optics is used to prove that a spherical waveguide filled with an isotropic material with radial refractive index n=1/r has radially polarized modes (i.e. the electric field is only radial) with the same perfect focusing properties as the Maxwell fish-eye (MFE) lens. An approximate version of that device, comprising a thin waveguide with a homogeneous core, paves the way to experimentally attaining perfect imaging in the MFE lens.


Publication type: 
JRC-SCI Magazine
Published in: 
New Journal of Physics Vol. 12, 123023, p.p.1-13. 2010
ISBN/ISSN: 
1367-2630
Publication date: 
December 2010
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