{"id":151432,"date":"2022-11-29T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-light-controlling-device-could-allow-lidar-to-image-scenes-a-million-times-faster"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:25:38","slug":"new-light-controlling-device-could-allow-lidar-to-image-scenes-a-million-times-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-light-controlling-device-could-allow-lidar-to-image-scenes-a-million-times-faster","title":{"rendered":"New light-controlling device could allow LIDAR to image scenes a million times faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-light-controlling-device-could-allow-lidar-to-image-scenes-a-million-times-faster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Controlling light \u201chas been a recurring research theme since antiquity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, spent more than four years developing technologies for high-speed optical beam forming.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also developed a pioneering fabrication process that will ensure the quality of the device if and when it is manufactured at scale.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sampson Wilcox.<\/p>\n<p>They have now presented the fruits of their labor: a programmable, wireless device that can control light. The new system can manipulate the intensity of light and focus it in specific directions, and \u201cdo it orders of magnitude more quickly than commercial devices,\u201d an MIT press statement reveals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controlling light \u201chas been a recurring research theme since antiquity.\u201d An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, spent more than four years developing technologies for high-speed optical beam forming. The researchers also developed a pioneering fabrication process that will ensure the quality of the device if and when it is manufactured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}