From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 15:01:56 MDT
--- Alejandro Dubrovsky <s328940@student.uq.edu.au>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 05:16, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> > Could you explain what I
> am
> > failing to grasp, please?
>
> It's not a usual lens. I (disagree/don't know
> enough about the physics
> to agree with) Spudboy's supposed applications of
> the lens. The
> benefits of these lenses over the standard type is
> that, over certain
> frequency ranges, they can amplify the higher order
> components of light
> that are only usually noticeable close to the
> source, letting you focus
> light down to less than the usual half-a-wavelength
> size.
Ah, I see. 'Tis not what I thought. Thank you for
the update - though, given as the discovery of this is
not news (as evidenced by the date of the article you
pasted), it seems the next major step here would be
when someone commercializes the discovery - say, for
astronomical telescopes such as the Hubble.
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