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Modern cameras are evolving beyond image capture to become information channels. New lens and focal plane designs maximize data capture, optimizing cameras for efficient information extraction per photon and joule.

Keywords:

array cameras computational imaging information capacity metaoptics modal sampling multiscale optics

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Computational Imaging

Background:

Traditional cameras focus on image quality, but modern digital cameras act as analog-to-digital converters.
Recent advancements shift the focus towards maximizing information capture from optical signals.

Purpose of the Study:

To review novel lens and focal plane designs for enhancing camera information capture capacity.
To explore strategies for efficient data readout and compression under realistic constraints.

Main Methods:

Review of multiscale monocentric and array lens architectures for improved geometric scaling.
Analysis of metaoptic and mode-sorting focal plane filters for richer feature sampling.
Highlighting architectures for dimensionality reduction, integrated photonic encoders, and learned decoding.

Main Results:

New optical designs can significantly increase information capture capacity beyond traditional imaging limits.
Co-designed systems integrating optics, focal planes, and readout subsystems offer improved performance.
Pre-digitization dimensionality reduction strategies are crucial for energy efficiency at high throughput.

Conclusions:

Cameras are transitioning from image recorders to end-to-end information channels.
Optimizing cameras as information channels requires joint design of optics, focal plane, and readout.
Future cameras will deliver more task-relevant measurements per photon and joule.