Wednesday, April 19, 2017

SAVI camera ditches long lens for distant images

04/19/2017 03:32 PM EDT

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A collaboration of engineers at Rice and Northwestern universities has yielded a camera platform that uses laser 'speckle' patterns to capture high-resolution images from a distance without telescopic lenses. The system known as SAVI--for "Synthetic Apertures for long-range, subdiffraction-limited Visible Imaging"-- doesn't need a long lens to take a picture of a faraway object. 


Full story at http://news.rice.edu/2017/04/14/savi-camera-ditches-long-lens-for-distant-images/

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