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What if each pixel was actually a steerable directional two way transceiver antenna in the visible spectrum? o.O Ok, so now were looking at something a few dec
by happyslobro 10y ago
What if each pixel was actually a steerable directional two way transceiver antenna in the visible spectrum? o.O
Ok, so now were looking at something a few decades away.
Hey, this could actually make zooming work really really well, depending on how well you could aim the antennas. This might work as a combination telescope / microscope...
- coldtea 10y ago>Ok, so now were looking at something a few decades away Or maybe never? Some things just cannot be done. Physical limits and such.
- happyslobro 10y agoWell, we've already got the beginnings of visible light nano-antennas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_rectenna). I'm not sure how directional they are, but we do have MEMS cantilevers to point them individually. Granted, getting this all working together as a combined camera/monitor is the kind of thing that could keep a generation of engineers and scientists occupied, with no guarantee of success.
- outworlder 10y agoSomething like a phased-array camera?