Anti-mirror effect: A perfect lens brings a brighter feature

TL;DR

This paper introduces the anti-mirror effect, where a perfect lens creates an illusion making multiple objects appear as one, enhancing brightness and enabling new optical illusions.

Contribution

It proposes a novel illusion optics concept using a perfect lens to merge multiple objects into one in the far field, verified by numerical simulations.

Findings

Perfect lens can make multiple objects appear as a single object.

The device enhances illumination brightness for various systems.

Numerical simulations confirm the concept for passive and active objects.

Abstract

In this letter, we show that a perfect lens can be employed to make multiple objects appear like only one in the far field, leading to a new concept of illusion optics. Numerical simulations are performed to verify the functionalities for both passive and active objects. The conceptual device can be utilized to enhance the illumination brightness for both incoherent and coherent systems.