Nasa suggested it could be used in detectors and instrument components where stray-light causes problems.

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This restriction has been established to avoid the possibility of an accidental pointing error causing too much light to fall upon an instrument.

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Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.

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