The unidirectional diffractive processor in action. (IMAGE)

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics

The unidirectional diffractive processor in action.

Caption

The unidirectional diffractive processor transmits high-quality images in the forward propagation direction, represented with the blue line, from field of view (FOV) A to FOV B, while effectively blocking the image formation in the backward propagation direction, represented with the brown line, from FOV B to FOV A.

Credit

Ozcan Lab @UCLA.

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