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according to the wikipedia article it's a surface of micro-mirrors that work in pairs. so it's basically a pair of mirrors scaled down and repeated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reversing_mirror

not very exciting really.




No, that is not what Prof. Hicks made. His mirror is a single curved piece.

Source: I am a former undergrad research assistant of his.


huh. thanks. so that's the second type listed at wikipedia? or am i confused? perhaps you or he could fix / clarify the wikipedia article? i guess i could but it feels odd to do it third-hand...


I wish I could give you a link to one of Prof. Hicks's published papers on the topic, but I'm having trouble finding one that isn't behind a paywall. This seems like a nice introduction: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/papers/physics-today.pdf

If you have access to journals through a university, you could take a look at some of his papers yourself (His website is http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/). They're easy enough for a sophomore to recreate the results. (I know, because I did for an independent study with Prof. Hicks.)


I imagine the hard part is actually optimizing that array of mirrors.




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