In conventional imaging, resolution decreases as the distance between the object and the observer increases. While this degradation seems inevitable for images, it does not happen to time encoded information.
Time Encoded Remote Aperture (TERA) imaging uses the information encoded in the time dependence of light coming from a scene to reconstruct images of that scene. This time encoded aperture information can travel undistorted over large distances and does not require an imaging system with a large aperture to achieve a high resolution. TERA Imaging has potential applications in endoscopic imaging, microscopy, remote sensing, and astronomy.