Abstract
Maxwell's fish-eye lens (MFEL) with positive refraction has been shown to achieve perfect imaging, but with the cost of drain assistance. This has led to ongoing heated debates about the rigor of the physics of super-resolution phenomena in MFEL. In this work, we report that a MFEL embedded in an exterior coating, inspired by the solid immersion concept, can realize super-resolution imaging without a drain. Such a solution mitigates and bypasses the corresponding criticisms and debates of the past decades. We find that the total reflection at the outer solid-immersion interface and the native perfect focusing of MFEL synthetically contribute to a super-resolution image formed in the air. Moreover, this intuitive yet simple recipe can be robustly applied to other absolute instruments, such as the general Luneburg lens and more versatile superimaging systems are anticipated. We demonstrate the imaging performance in a solid immersion general Luneburg lens both numerically and experimentally, which indirectly verifies the imaging validity of the solid immersion MFEL without a drain.
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