Also on Earth, a similar approach to providing point-to-point networks is being newly started with the help of "fiberless photonics". The principle of free space optical communication is somewhat similar to optical telegraphy from the 18th century: Messages are encoded and transmitted from one terrestrial location to another using light. This offers the potential for quickly providing secure connections between locations, e.g., from building to building in a crowded city or for the "last mile" of a wider network.

One of the most common types of viewfinder is the one you find in a reflex. Behind the lens there is a mirror which reflects the light coming from the lens to a pentaprism. The prism flips the image upright and reflects it back to your eye.

In a “global” shutter, the first curtain opens, exposing the whole frame, and the second one closes at the end of the desired exposure time.

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At first, photoresistors (CdS) were used as stand-alone light metering devices to help the photographer correctly set the camera. Shortly after, such devices were built-in into many cameras.

With the improvement of film sensitivity and camera design, this “long enough” time got as short as a few hundreds of a second or faster. To cope with such short exposures, a mechanical shutter was built into the camera itself.

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When you take the photo, the mirror flips upwards, the shutter opens, and the light goes to expose the film. At the end of the exposure, the shutter closes, and the mirror flips back in position.

Now, this certainly is a fun project to do with the kids, but that’s all it is. To turn a camera obscura into something useful, we need to do better.

On the wall opposite to the crack, a dim yet recognizable image of the outside world. Except it is flipped upside down. What kind of devilry is this?

Before you go, here is an interesting similarity to think about: the evolution of the camera closely resembles that of the eye. Intrigued? If so, have a look at this video.

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PI's solutions include a large number of standardized tip/tilt systems as well as customer-specific developments. More will follow.

Andrea Minoia works as a researcher in a Belgian university by day and is a keen amateur astrophotographer by night. He is most interested in deep sky photography with low budget equipment and in helping beginners along their journey under the stars.

A sealed box, a hole to let the light come in, a medium sensitive to light to record the image and a few other parts is all you need to make cameras be those high-quality instruments you need to capture forever the most important moments of your lives.

To get sharp images with a pinhole camera, the hole must be rather small, making the image very dim. Even so, eventually you will end up with a white image as you overexpose the film.

In addition to high bandwidths and sufficiently large tilt angles, maintenance-free function in 24/7 mode is of crucial importance for this application. Energy efficiency, low weight, and a compact design are also essential. Last but not least, robustness is required, because the systems not only have to withstand the high accelerations during satellite launch, but also the harsh environmental conditions such as strong temperature fluctuations or radiation exposure over the entire period of use.

You could get rolls containing 6, 12, 24, or 36 frames, and the film needed to be manually advanced from one frame to the next before taking another photo.

To answer this question, let’s dig into the anatomy of a camera, starting from experiencing the very basic phenomenon at the core of photography: light and darkness connected by a hole.

Today, the fiber optic cables connecting our planet form the backbone of the global network, without which almost nothing functions in modern societies. And while there is still a lot of work to be done in order to complete the last stretch to the end user using fiber optic technology instead of copper, we are eyewitnesses of a new race for the infrastructure for data and telecommunication networks. Several technology companies are planning to implement huge space-based communication networks of the latest generation. Their nodes are compact satellites, thousands of which will be launched into orbit. These use laser light to transmit messages, they connect to each other, and efficiently and quickly transmit data from one point on the planet to another. The vision is to provide every car, physical infrastructure, shipping container, and semitrailer, or even every cow, with connectivity; therefore, enabling a spectrum of fantastic applications.

Well, if there is a natural phenomenon one can experience in everyday life, you can bet ancient Greeks knew about it, and Aristoteles did, in fact, describe what you are seeing some 2400 years ago.

What we need is a way to permanently impress the image formed inside the camera on something. For example, the photographic film used in that old camera your grandparents have at home.

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Now that we have a way to permanently capture an image with our pinhole camera, we have created a very basic photo camera we could use, for example, to capture a solargraph.

PI's fast tip/tilt mirror technology has been used in both terrestrial projects and space missions since the 1990s.  For example, in the Solar Orbiter, a joint project between NASA and ESA, a PI beam stabilization system is in use and on its way to the sun. PI offers efficient and fast designs based on piezoelectric or electromagnetic drives – and also offers many years of experience in quickly scaling to large quantities.

Assuming you don’t want to get trapped in a dark and dusty room with a hole drilled in the wall, here is what you need to do:

When you press the button to take a photo, inside the camera, the shutter opens for the desired amount of time before closing shut again, thus stopping exposing the film to light.

This is something street photographers do when shooting “from the hips” to capture candid portraits of random bypassers. But this is far from ideal.

How do we reliably frame and compose the scene we want to photograph? After all, we can’t look inside our sealed camera anymore, right?

A simple convex piece of glass in front of the hole will bend and focus on the light rays coming from the scene. This means we can get sharper images even with larger holes, thus allowing for more light to enter the camera.

Piezoelectric or electromagnetic tip/tilt mirrors (FSM = Fast Steering Mirrors) can provide angular resolution down to the nanorad range with a mechanical bandwidth up to the kHz range. They are compact, fast, and accurate enough to compensate for the disturbances that are common in these applications. While piezo-driven FSMs offer a higher resolution and bandwidth, electromagnetic units (usually voice coil FSMs) allow larger displacements. In order to fulfill the entire spectrum of requirements for the application, PI offers both types of mechanisms, in a standardized design and a application-specific configuration.

What we need is a viewfinder. This device allows us to frame and compose our image, and it comes in many different types.

In addition to optoelectronic components and extensive communication know-how, mechatronic systems also play a decisive role in the functionality of such networks. The transmission of messages via bundled laser beams requires precise alignment solutions in order to keep the beam precisely on the target even over long distances, correct drift and interferences, and, if necessary, quickly re-align it. In addition to being controlled by the satellite location system, a fine, high-speed steering system is required to compensate for vibrations from the satellite, thermal fluctuations, and other causes of disturbances. In ground-based point-to-point networks, atmospheric turbulences or movements in buildings can also be a potential source of interference for the error-free signal transmission. Therefore, quickly reacting tip/tilt mirror systems are of essential importance for free space optical communication networks.

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Ok, images are not that good, I admit it, but we can do better. The larger the hole, the blurred and brighter the image is. The smaller the hole, the sharper but darker the image gets.

With the addition of a lens, we now have a much more sophisticated photo camera in our hands, capable of delivering high-quality images.

Now, I could annoy you with a long and tedious description of the physics involved in this, but I won’t. Instead, I want you to stop imagining and experience it for real.

Well, we could aim our camera blindly at the scene and rely on the use of wide-angle lenses ensuring a large field of view and taking advantage of hyperfocal distance to have everything in focus.

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With the introduction of the shutter, we can not only control how long the film is exposed to light but also create artistic effects, such as motion blur and intentional camera movement.

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For more than 150 years, photography has been just that: a bit of chemistry, some physics, and precision mechanisms to improve a box with a hole.

The first self-contained digital camera is credited to an engineer at Kodak and used a CCD sensor, an 8-pound device that gave a black-and-white image of 0.01 megapixels, and appeared in 1975.

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Imagine you wake up in a dark room. As you move around in the darkness, you see a thin, flickering beam of light entering the room from a small crack in the wall. And then you see it!

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Shortly after, the first digital camera based on a CMOS sensor entered the scene and this is the grand grand grandfather of today’s cameras.

An argent-based emulsion sensitive to light was used to impress the image on the film, which was then developed and the image printed on paper.

Modern digital cameras are essentially a computer, and although the physics behind forming an image is unchanged, digital photography is a game-changer:

In a rolling shutter, the frame is not exposed as a whole. Instead, the two curtains travel together “scanning” the frame very fast vertically (or horizontally).

To avoid this, we need to stop light from reaching the film after a long enough period of time. In the early days of photography, the photographers would use a clock to time the exposure and manually close the hole.

Film existed in different formats (medium formats, 35 mm, etc.), in different light sensitivity (labeled according to the ASA or ISO standard), in color, or black and white.

Thanks to the mirror, in the viewfinder you see exactly what your lens sees and precisely focus your lens, rather than rely on hyperfocal distance.