Research Article

Conditions of Perfect Imaging in Negative Refraction Materials with Gain

Figure 1

(a) The refractive index of the NRM slab. The red and blue lines show the real and imaginary parts of the refractive index , respectively. The frequency is  s−1, where [15]. (b) and are not strictly antiparallel ( ) in the lossy NRM slab, featuring the “walk-off” angle about at , at , and at . The carrier frequency is  s−1.
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