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- The transformation optical technique enhances traditional imaging systems by modifying their refractive and gradient index properties.
- This approach allows for greater flexibility in design, particularly when detector placement allows for simplifications in wave behavior analysis.
- Key applications include creating a flattened Maxwell fish-eye lens for improved relay capabilities and optimizing conventional lenses for a wider field of view and reduced optical distortions.
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We apply the transformation optical technique to modify or improve conventional refractive and gradient index optical imaging devices. In particular, when it is known that a detector will terminate the paths of rays over some surface, more freedom is available in the transformation approach, since the wave behavior over a large portion of the domain becomes unimportant. For the analyzed configurations, quasi-conformal and conformal coordinate transformations can be used, leading to simplified constitutive parameter distributions that, in some cases, can be realized with isotropic index; index-only media can be low-loss and have broad bandwidth. We apply a coordinate transformation to flatten a Maxwell fish-eye lens, forming a near-perfect relay lens; and also flatten the focal surface associated with a conventional refractive lens, such that the system exhibits an ultra-wide field-of-view with reduced aberration.
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