I presume, the insect can see behind the corners with its composite eyes too - it uses polarized light for it instead.

However, polarized light is not known for bending around corners to any significant degree.

However, polarized light is not known for bending around corners to any significant degree.

However, the laser light is not known for it as well.. And the light is known to become polarized with reflection, for example.

If they could find a specular object to bounce the laser off, perhaps metal door knob, it would greatly increase the signal to noise ratio, and they could illuminate smaller parts of the scene at a time.

Next step would be to combine this with first scanning the surface they want to bounce the laser off of at low power - so as to get a reflectance map (low power so as not get any interference from multiply reflected photons).
Like so:
http://www.youtub...CGihW5rU

If they could find a specular object to bounce the laser off, perhaps metal door knob, it would greatly increase the signal to noise ratio

Shiny objects are, unfortunately, not always conveniently located where you need them. Certainly not in a fire fighting scenario.

However, the laser light is not known for it as well

If you target the corner then it actually does (Huygens-Fresnel principle)
http://en.wikiped...rinciple

Polarized light alone doesn't work beause you don't have the timing information.

Polarized light alone doesn't work beause you don't have the timing information.

Actually you even don't need a timing information or even polarized light, just the effective de-blurring algorithm. http://www.scienc...alls.htm http://www.scienc...2052.htm

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