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’ve never worked with spectrometers but physics and chemistry were some of my strongest subjects, so it made some sense to me - but the sentence was definitely written with the intent to say “look peons, I know big science words you do not, and I can string them into a sentence you’ll question the legibility of”.
So, not bullshit?
Not bullshit. Just another poorly written popsci article promoting real research.
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.
such as unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometers or micro-ring resonators
It has a base-plate of prefamulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing, aligned in such a way that the 2 main spurving bearings are in-line with the pentameter fan.
The spectrometer knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t.
One step closer to having tricorders hopefully, probably bullshit though.
In this timeline? More like citizen rationing spy devices.
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.
