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The gravitational lens equation resulting from a single (non-linear) mass concentration (the main lens) plus inhomogeneities of the large-scale structure is shown to be strictly equivalent to the single-plane gravitational lens equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Schneider

Focusing using conventional lenses relies on the collection and interference of propagating waves, but discounts the evanescent waves that decay rapidly from the source. Since these evanescent waves contain the finest details of the source,…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ashwin K. Iyer , G. V. Eleftheriades

Doppler lensing is the apparent change in object size and magnitude due to peculiar velocities. Objects falling into an overdensity appear larger on its near side, and smaller on its far side, than typical objects at the same redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 David J. Bacon , Sambatra Andrianomena , Chris Clarkson , Krzysztof Bolejko , Roy Maartens

The limited resolution of a conventional optical microscope stems from the fact that the subwavelength information of an object is carried by evanescent waves, which exponentially decays in space and cannot reach the imaging plane. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Wen Fan , Bing Yan , Zengbo Wang , Boris Lukyanchuk , Limin Wu

The coordinate transformation technique is applied to the design of perfect lenses and superlenses. In particular, anisotropic metamaterials that magnify two-dimensional planar images beyond the diffraction limit are designed by the use of…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-01 Mankei Tsang , Demetri Psaltis

Controlling light at subwavelength scales is one of the main challenges of nanophotonics. Leveraging hyperbolic polaritons supporting arbitrarily large wavevectors can lead to extreme light confinement, effectively overcoming the…

In metric-affine gravity, both the gravitational and matter actions depend not just on the metric, but also on the independent affine connection. Thus matter can be modeled as a hyperfluid, characterized by both the energy-momentum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Ilaria Andrei , Damianos Iosifidis , Laur Järv , Margus Saal

We consider a generic Metric-Affine Cosmological setup and classify some particularly interesting specific cases of Perfect Hyperfluids. In particular, we present the form of conservation laws for the cases of pure spin, pure dilation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Damianos Iosifidis

We demonstrate a novel artificial optical material, a photonic hyper-crystal, which combines the most interesting features of hyperbolic metamaterials and photonic crystals. Similar to hyperbolic metamaterials, photonic hyper-crystals…

High-precision cosmological probes have revealed a small but significant tension between the parameters measured with different techniques, among which there is one based on time delays in gravitational lenses. We discuss a new way of using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 O. Wucknitz , L. G. Spitler , U. -L. Pen

The last decade has seen numerous efforts to achieve imaging resolution beyond that of the Abbe-Rayleigh diffraction limit. The main direction of research aiming to break this limit seeks to exploit the evanescent components containing fine…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Fu Min Huang , Nikolay I. Zheludev

The question is considered about possibility of overcoming diffraction limit at device, named superlens. This device is a flat slab, executed from material with index of refraction n,equal n=-1. It is shown, what this device really can…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Veselago

Optical lenses are pervasive in various areas of sciences and technologies. It is well-known that the resolving power of a lens and thus optical systems is limited by the diffraction of light. Recently, various plasmonics and metamaterials…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-05 Changbao Ma , Zhaowei Liu

We challenge the widely held belief that the cosmological principle is an obvious consequence of the observed isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, combined with the Copernican principle. We perform a detailed analysis of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. K. Barrett , C. A. Clarkson

We find that a uniform scaling of the gravitational free-fall rates and photon-electron scattering rate leaves most dimensionless cosmological observables nearly invariant. This result opens up a new approach to reconciling cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-27 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Fei Ge , Lloyd Knox

For some special window functions $\psi_{\beta} \in H^2(\mathbb{C}^+),$ we prove that, over all sets $\Delta \subset \mathbb{C}^+$ of fixed hyperbolic measure $\nu(\Delta),$ the ones over which the Wavelet transform…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-18 João P. G. Ramos , Paolo Tilli

Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited, which means that they cannot resolve features smaller than half the illumination wavelength. Under white light illumination, such resolution limit is about 250-300 nm for an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-26 Bing Yan , Zengbo Wang , Alan Parker , Yukun Lai , John Thomas , Liyang Yue , James Monks

We argue that standard tools of holography can be used to describe fully non-perturbative microscopic models of cosmology in which a period of accelerated expansion may result from the positive potential energy of time-dependent scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Stefano Antonini , Petar Simidzija , Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We propose an approach to far-field optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit. The proposed system allows image magnification, is robust with respect to material losses and can be fabricated by adapting existing metamaterial technologies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zubin Jacob , Leonid V. Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov

Evanescent light can be localized at the nanoscale by resonant absorption in a plasmonic nanoparticle or taper or by transmission through a nanohole. However, a conventional lens cannot focus free-space light beyond half of the wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-31 Guang Hui Yuan , Edward T. F. Rogers , Nikolay I. Zheludev