All jokes aside, this is super exciting if you are interested in instrumentation for environmental monitoring.
All I’m hearing is “tricorder on the way”
As someone watching their diet right now: finally, accurate macro tracking. At least if they manage to do some sort of sensor fusion with the camera.
Unlike conventional spectrometers, which rely on dispersing light or algorithmic reconstruction to recover spectra, the convolutional spectrometer physically performs a convolution operation on the incoming light. This is achieved using a simple cascade of optical components with periodic spectral responses, such as unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometers or micro-ring resonators.
Is this thing a spectrometer or a fucking turbo encabulator?
I’ve worked with spectrometers and on spectrometry design before, and that quote from the article is intelligible. It’s also pretentious and poorly explained.
I literally went onto the comments to post this exact comment about that exact paragraph. Love to see another enjoyer of side fumble prevention.
Dat malleable logarithmic casing doe.
The writing in the linked article is a little weird, as others have pointed out. However the journal publication is very cool. If this is reproducible, it’ll likely have a noticeable impact over the next 10 years or so. We won’t see $10 spectrometers, but we might see handheld ones in a similar format to the cheap IR cameras.
Here’s the link for anyone interested.
I guess spectral recognition is cheaper and more accurate than image recognition now.
There you go, welcome for your new research area or business opportunity.
