Frequency spectra of absolute optical instruments

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Authors

TYC Tomáš DANNER Aaron

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source New Journal of Physics
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/14/8/085023/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/085023
Field Optics, masers and lasers
Keywords absolute instrument; frequency spectrum; pulse propagation
Description We analyse frequency spectra of absolute optical instruments and show that they have very specific properties: the eigenfrequencies form tight groups that are almost equidistantly spaced. We prove this by theoretical analysis and demonstrate by numerically calculated spectra of various examples of absolute instruments. We also show that in rotationally and spherically symmetric absolute instruments a source, its image and the centre of the device must lie on a straight line.
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