Revisiting the Perfect Lens with Loss

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2009-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4585v1

Physics

Optics

Submission rejected by PRL with authors reply to reviewers comments. 7 pages total. Reviewers comments and Editor corresponden

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We reconsider the refraction of evanescent waves at an interface between air and negative index medium under the assumption that negative index medium is necessarily dispersive and lossy. We show that all evanescent waves in air will be refracted into decaying propagating waves inside a negative index medium, with different spatial frequency components having different propagation directions which are separated both in time and space; hence no refocus of these evanescent waves is possible. Accordingly, all information encoded by evanescent waves will be lost in the image making sub-diffraction-limited imaging impossible.

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