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A lens that randomly scatters light can beat the resolution of a conventional lens by at least a factor of two.

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Figure 1: A schematic of the HIRES (high index resolution enhancement by scattering) lens developed by Mosk and colleagues5.

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  1. Wolfgang S. Bacsa is in CEMES/CNRS, University of Toulouse, 29, rue Jeanne Marvig, BP 94347, 31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,

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