Microvision's current pico projection engine uses red and blue laser diodes and a frequency-doubled "synthetic" green laser to create a full color image.

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The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.

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Useless was definitely there, including a piece of matzo laser-etched with actor Leonard Nimoy's image, a rocket-powered motorcycle built by a Brooklyn, N.

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The system is equipped with five laser guide stars and three deformable mirrors to correct image distortions from the Earth's atmosphere in real time, researchers said.

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His laser-like focus never wavers from his own image.

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In a 35-nanosecond burst of laser light, 4.3 megabytes of a color image are burned on a photosensitive DuPont polymer film, rearranging the chemistry into a zebra-striped interference pattern.

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Scientists at NASA decided to test their ability to communicate via laser to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) by sending an image of the famous painting.

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We call this new imaging technology femto photography because we capture a segment of the image with a flashlight (in this case, a laser pulse) on for a few millionths of a billionth of a second (or a few femtoseconds) and an exposure time approaching a trillionth of a second.

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The more of these the laser sends in, the more light returns to the device and the higher the resolution of the resulting image.

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