diffraction

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Instead of focusing light through glass, the system uses an array of coded sensors placed at different locations within a diffraction plane.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026

She was the most experienced chemist and an expert in diffraction.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

"We firmly believe this work provides a significant benchmark for advancing integrated optical diffraction computing to exceed a 10 GHz rate in real-world applications," says Chen.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

Once prepared, the optical signals pass through a diffraction operator that performs the feature extraction.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

Many properties of light, including diffraction, are naturally explained by the wave theory, and in subsequent years Huygens’ view carried the day.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan