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AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring
- March 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for monitoring structural vibrations using diffractive optical processors. This new technology uses artificial intelligence to co-optimize a passive diffractive layer and a shallow neural network, allowing the system to encode time-varying mechanical vibrations into distinct spatiotemporal optical patterns.
Originally published at Phys.org