Perturbation on the perfect lens: the near-perfect lens

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Nov 2006

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 8, Issue 11, pp. 271 (2006).

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We present the full wave solution for a dipole source above a slab of left-handed medium of refractive index n = -1, but with epsi and μ differing from those ideal values that create the perfect lens through taking epsi = -(1+δ)-1 and μ = -(1+δ), where δ, and hence epsi and μ, are real. Any modifications in resolution are therefore not due to loss effects within the lens. Finite solutions for the form of the fields throughout all space are obtained using the method of Hertz potentials, thereby regularizing the singular perfect lens solution. This regularization will facilitate subsequent perturbation analyses. Using an appropriately defined criterion, we examine the sensitivity of the lens resolution to the material imperfection δ. It is found that the resolution converges logarithmically with δ upon that of the perfect lens. Comparison of theoretical results with experimental data suggests that even this slow convergence is the best that can be achieved.

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