The Technology
Long-range imaging is used across various disciplines, including astronomy, remote sensing and surveillance. Higher resolution requires larger aperture and lenses. This makes these systems expensive and cumbersome.
A new method for synthetically expanding the aperture by acquiring multiple images of a static object using a moving detector was developed. This technique combines numerous small aperture recordings into a composite large aperture image by leveraging the complete complex field of the captured images. Utilizing low-resolution intensity images captured by a distributed array of sparsely fly-scanning detectors, we reconstruct high-resolution images.
Advantages
- Enhancement of images via sparsely sampled synthetic aperture
- Fly-scan sampling
- Better resistance to noise
- Serialization and scalability
Applications and Opportunities
- Long-range imaging for astronomy, surveillance and more
- Fast microscopy imaging for moving samples (QC, Metrology, etc.)
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