该相机的工作原理是：用一束激光照在物体上，每一个像素点都被不同红外频率的激光照着，以此来优化放大在其他情况下太弱而看不见的信号。

The camera works by illuminating objects with a laser that emits a different infrared frequency for every single pixel, allowing them to custom-amplify a signal that would otherwise be too dim to see.

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但他们发现，即使将火焰熄灭，仍可以获得一个信号——换句话说，就是激光在激发氧原子的同时也分成了两束。

But what they noticed was that even when they turned the flame off they were still getting a signal - in other words, the laser was breaking up as well as exciting the oxygen.

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所以O'Brien先生一直研究一套基于天花板的系统，用于跟踪接收装置所在位置，利用来自定向传送器的几束激光向该装置发出信号。

So Mr O'Brien has been working on a ceiling-based system that tracks where a receiving device is, and then sends it a signal using several laser beams from a directional transmitter.

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