Perfect imaging: they don't do it with mirrors

Abstract

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

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• Optical Hyperlens: Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit
• General Relativity in Electrical Engineering
• Perfect imaging without negative refraction
• Comment on "Perfect imaging with positive refraction in three dimensions"

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