NASA has funded further development of a new type of solar sail relying on diffractive optics, with the ultimate aim of a demonstration mission in space. The "Diffractive Solar Sailing" project has ...

As a promising candidate for next-generation mobile platform, mixed reality (MR) such as Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest Pro (both are passthrough virtual reality headsets) has potential to ...

The Binkhorst lecture and medal, named for IOL pioneer Cornelius D. Binkhorst, were established in 1975. Each year, ASCRS awards the medal to an individual who has followed in Dr. Binkhorst’s ...

State-of-the-art neural networks depend on linear operations, such as matrix-vector multiplications and convolutions. While dedicated processors like GPUs and TPUs exist for these operations, they ...

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 ...