August 6, 2012

SEEING THROUGH WALLS: Laser System Reconstructs objects hidden from sight




SEEING THROUGH WALLS: Laser System Reconstructs objects hidden from sight

By combining bouncing photons, the particles of light, with advanced optics, researchers are able to ‘see’ 3-D images of objects hidden around a corner

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2012 – Inspired by the erratic behavior of photons zooming around and bouncing off objects and walls inside a room, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and Rice University combined these bouncing photons with advanced optics to enable them to “see” what’s hidden around the corner. This technique, described in a paper published today in the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, may one day prove invaluable in disaster recovery situations, as well as in noninvasive biomedical imaging applications.

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