Absolute instruments and perfect imaging in geometrical optics

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Authors	TYC Tomáš HERZÁNOVÁ Lenka ŠARBORT Martin BERING LARSEN Klaus
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	New Journal of Physics
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/11/115004?hdrSearch=find-con
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/11/115004
Field	Optics, masers and lasers
Keywords	absolute instrument;geometrical optics;perfect imaging;stigmatic image
Description	We investigate imaging by spherically symmetric absolute instruments that provide perfect imaging in the sense of geometrical optics. We derive a number of properties of such devices, present a general method for designing them and use this method to propose several new absolute instruments, in particular a lens providing a stigmatic image of an optically homogeneous region and having a moderate refractive index range.
Related projects:	Mathematical structures and their physical applications