MIT News August 13, 2018
Researchers at MIT exploited time as an extra dimension in the optical design and demonstrated that by folding large spaces in time using time-resolved cavities, one can enable new camera capabilities without losing the targeted information. They demonstrated lens tube compression by an order of magnitude, together with ultrafast multi-zoom imaging and ultrafast multispectral imaging by time-folding the optical path at different regions of the imaging optics. They expect this technique to have a broad impact on time-resolved imaging and depth-sensing optics… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics, dubbed “time-folded optics,” that captures images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the lens. Courtesy of the researchers