Bendy camera the width of a human hair can take accurate 3D images

By Chris Stokel-Walker

The camera being acceptable up successful the lab

Kevin Mitchell

A fibre-optic cablegram the thickness of a quality hairsbreadth tin transmit close 3D images successful existent time, creating a tiny flexible camera.

Miles Padgett astatine the University of Glasgow, UK, and his colleagues person developed a strategy respective orders of magnitude smaller than pre-existing cameras based connected fibre-optic cable. The strategy uses a cablegram that is 40 centimetres agelong and 50 micrometres successful diameter. It tin instrumentality 3D pictures of objects up to 2.5 metres away.

The camera works likewise to a lidar …

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