Patent ID: 8542347

Claim:
A super-resolution telescope comprising: A) a telescope adapted to view a target said telescope defining a telescope aperture; B) a target illuminating laser system adapted to produce at least three laser beams positioned in relation to said telescope aperture, each of said at least three laser beams having a slightly different frequency so as to produce an illumination pattern comprised of several sets of straight interference fringes which, when the at least three laser beams are directed at a target, sweep across the target at a predetermined rate and predetermined separation, said fringes defining a set of beat frequencies and defining a highest beat frequency; C) receiver detector components defining an array of high speed detectors adapted to monitor and record spatial intensity data at frequencies at least twice the highest beat frequency of the laser light reflected from the target; and D) at least one computer processor programmed with a set of algorithms for producing, from the recorded spatial intensity data, images of the target which are better than diffraction limited images corresponding to the telescope aperture.