Researchers develop technique to unscramble light for a much sharper picture
By Ross Miller 
posted May 3rd 2009 7:42AM
posted May 3rd 2009 7:42AM
Trying to circumvent the need to choose between getting a wide-angle shot and zooming in for details, a team of researchers at Princeton led by electric engineer Jason Fleischer have developed a new method to get the best of both worlds, by passing the light through a "nonlinear crystal" that would normally distorts the picture. A computer algorithm then pieces together the data and, as they claim, produces a wide-view image that also manages to capture the finer points otherwise missing when using conventional techniques. The goal is to build "super-resolution" microscopes for better medical diagnostics, but the group also sees uses in the fields of data encryption and lithography / microchip production. Is it too much to ask that our next Canon or Nikon have this a standard feature?[Via PhysOrg]
"Is it too much to ask that our next Canon or Nikon have this a standard feature?"
Not if you want to pay an enormous amount of money..
yep, it IS too much to ask. Yet another example of people in our society who don't give a damn about medical advances and place their personal relatively pointless endeavors such as photography over shit that really matters. Now I'm gonna put on my flame suit before all those deadbeat photographers get here.
Dude, chill.
Kaitou, have you ever heard of people caring about multiple things at once?
What you should really be cultivating is a dislike for deadbeat trolls, not the 'deadbeat photographers'.
@douche kid.
Yeah, and we shouldn't explore space because people are starving in Africa.
Myopic douche bags like yourself need to learn. A lot.
Here's a start on your path to enlightenment: Correlation does not imply causality. See if you can wrap you seemingly lacking intellect around how that is relevant to your comment. I'm betting you can't, but I've been surprised before...
"Not if you want to pay an enormous amount of money.."
Don't you already pay an enoromous amount for a top of the line Canon or Nikon camera? Like $5,000 for the professional grade ones? I know, I bought a DSLR last year and it came to around $1200 for the camera plus two lenses which ironically could buy you a used car, two round trip flights overseas, depending on where you live two months rent in an apartment, etc. So yeah, we pay a pretty enormous amount already.
This makes "Youngs Double Slit" look like "Young's Double SHIT!"
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You should be a stand up comedian!
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I am
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Yep, its Swine Flu
Oh my god! Engadget spreading the swine flu! And we blame the poor Mexicans!
You guys, please stop. I'm simply dying from laughter.
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Hey wheres your cough?
Maybe hes serious, we should do something
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I think he died before it could come out.
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Eww... blood in that one.
Guys, I dont see anythHHHNNNNNNNNNNNGH
Picture looks like an old shot of elton john.
yeah those laser safety spectacles don't make much of a fashion statement but they do protect your cornea
Well not just the glasses, the general look (jacket) and hair too.
Not to be pedantic but since you will probably say that again at some point in your life, it's the retina that is mostly meant to be protected with such glasses, the cornea is the lens part of the eye, the retina the bit at the back with the receptors.
You are probably confused because laser surgery which is blasting parts of the cornea to re-focus it and so targets the cornea with a laser.
Plus normal safety glasses for metalworking and such protect the cornea from objects flying into it but the tinted laserprotective ones are for guarding the retina primaririly.
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Why is the PC from the Mac commercials wearing those awful shades?
Get your eyes checked. There is no similarity at all.
Are you really comparing Elton John with PC from the Mac commercials?
Scott Summers has to do something after being in that gawdawful dingleberry of a movie "Wolverine," and this was the best he could do.
they are safety glasses, he is dealing with a bright, green laser that can cause eye damage immediately on exposure and the glasses are red which is the most effective at blocking green light
So this engineer's personality is electric? :) I presume you mean electrical engineer.
No, he actually conducts electricity, that's how they're able to get this system to work.
"that would normally distorts the picture"
Yeah, nonlinear crystals are AMAZING!
Just writing about them distorts grammar.
I'm a photographer and I don't want this crap. Nor do I want or care about video on dSLR's.
thanks for sharing
I'm a photographer, too, and I want this stuff. And you should too, unless you enjoy carrying 10 lbs of lenses with you. I think you just don't understand what this article is about... Oh yeah and I love making HD movies with my 5D MkII :)
Good for you, but I'd rather lug around the 10k$ lens I've already invested in than some stupid, ridiculously expensive super lens.
Your statement makes me doubt that you are a photographer.
Taking photos of your neighbours snatch, does not make you a photographer . . .
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I like the shades. Sure, they're laser safety goggles, but they're quite stylin.
Wow, they're doing the EXACT same thing in the MIT Media Lab. Maybe the two groups should talk to each other and see what's up.
So if I am understanding this correctly, the crystal polarizes light of different wavelengths such that the transverse E or M components line up and then the beat frequencies are decoded to produce an image? Wouldn't that mean that if the light source were monochromatic this system would not produce any improvement? Also how do the rays all bend in the same direction? Even if it were a graded index material different wavelengths will bend differently... The article wasn't very descriptive; does anyone have any ideas on how this works?
why do we have to wear these ridiculous glasses?
who ate all the donuts?
The biggest questions here are, how did they get Steven Hawkings to stand up? And where did he get those sexy glasses?
Roy Orbison.
You beat me to it!