"[Researchers] developed a system that uses multiple laser beams to illuminate a distant target and uses a pair of small telescopes to collect the reflected light. The team demonstrated that this intensity interferometer can image millimeter-wide letters at a distance of 1.36 km, a 14-fold improvement in spatial resolution compared with a single telescope."

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99

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Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light.

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