Perfect drain for the maxwell fish eye lens

Abstract

Perfect imaging of electromagnetic waves using the Maxwell fish eye (MFE) requires a new concept: A point called the perfect drain that we shall call the perfect point drain. From the mathematical point of view, aperfect point drain is just like an ideal point source, except that it drains power from the electromagneticfield instead of generating it. We introduce here the perfect drain for the MFE as a dissipative region of non-zero size that completely drains the power from the point source. To accomplish this goal, the region must have a precise complex permittivity that depends on its size as well as on the frequency. The perfect point drain is obtained when the diameter of the perfect drain tends to zero. This interpretation of the perfect point drain is connected well with common concepts of electromagnetic theory, opening up both modeling in computer simulations and experimental verification of setups containing a perfect point drain.© IOP PublishingLtd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.