> From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As far as I understand, only by using materials with a negative index
> of refraction
> (which practically do not exist yet, apart from small micro-samples
> using
> rather large amounts of energy and other trickery to re-direct the
> flow of
> photons) could ever reduce the limits of diffraction.
I've been following this, and I was under the impression that negative
refraction indices had only been achieved for much longer wavelengths,
such as microwaves. I don't think visible light negative refraction
index materials exist yet. (But if they do, please send me to a
reference.)
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