Tackling optical neural networks' interference enables efficient, low power, speed of light diffractive edge-AI multi-object recognition

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120604

"computers using structured light diffraction through layered materials have interference/ cross-talk among multiple objects, better design: reduces cross-talk between different objects, improves simultaneously present multiple target robustness, optimizes how light propagates/ processed across diffractive layers engineered to encode features of different objects... processing happens via light propagation (no electronics required during inference)... autonomous systems, surveillance, biomedical imaging"