Well, one example is an optical cable that uses light to send music or other digital info. Another example are machines that impregnate wafers with molecules of boron etc to create computer chips and they do it in a vacuum at near the speed of light. So it seems to me that images can be copied...
We use lasers containing various elements in vacuums on Earth all the time. Is it possible to use lasers in the dirty vacuum of space to take pics and transmit at near the speed of light?