May 9, 2025• Physics 18, 99A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light. L.-C. Liu et al. [1] Seeing the small picture. The remote-imaging system (left) shoots eight infrared laser beams (red line added to show the path) at a target (right) in a building 1.36 km away. Light reflecting off the target is collected by the system’s two telescopes. One of astronomers’ tricks for observing distant objects is intensity inte...