A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for monitoring ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have unveiled a new optical technology that enables precise focusing of light—only in one direction. This novel unidirectional focusing ...

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.

Researchers report building photonic computing chips that use light pulses to train spiking neural networks on robotic-control-style benchmark tasks, aiming to shift more of the learning workload from ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oea.2024.230005 discusses Pluggable multitask diffractive neural networks based on cascaded metasurfaces. Deep learning algorithms based on ...

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Thanks to a set of unique properties, diffractive optical elements have the potential to transform light into almost any desired distribution. Joshika Akhil gives the low-down on the technology that ...

Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of Technology professor could be the key to helping ...

Researchers from UCLA have used a 3D printer to create an artificial neural network able to analyze large volumes of data and identify objects at the speed of light. The system is called a diffractive ...

The feasibility of the concept was previously studied under NIAC’s Phase I and Phase II awards, led by Professor Grover Swartzlander from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, who ...