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  • OSA Optical Design and Fabrication 2021 (Flat Optics, Freeform, IODC, OFT)
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021),
  • paper 120780P
  • •https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603634

A Perfect Lens Design Hiding in Plain Sight for 167 Years

David Shafer

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Abstract

The gradient index Maxwell fish eye lens (1854) has a previously unrecognized ability to form a perfect flat real image of a flat real object without using the design change I suggested 30 years ago [1].

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