{"id":240218,"date":"2026-07-03T03:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/diffractive-networks-enable-optical-information-transfer-through-random-and-unknown-diffusers"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:21:08","slug":"diffractive-networks-enable-optical-information-transfer-through-random-and-unknown-diffusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/diffractive-networks-enable-optical-information-transfer-through-random-and-unknown-diffusers","title":{"rendered":"Diffractive networks enable optical information transfer through random and unknown diffusers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diffractive-networks-enable-optical-information-transfer-through-random-and-unknown-diffusers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transmission of optical information through random scattering media is a major challenge in optics, biomedical imaging, telecommunications and remote sensing. When light passes through a turbid or diffusive medium, such as biological tissue or a randomly structured optical material, the original image information can be severely distorted, making reliable recovery difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have introduced interleaved diffractive networks to address this challenge by enabling optical information transfer through random and unknown diffusers. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/lpor.71471\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Laser &amp; Photonics Reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transmission of optical information through random scattering media is a major challenge in optics, biomedical imaging, telecommunications and remote sensing. When light passes through a turbid or diffusive medium, such as biological tissue or a randomly structured optical material, the original image information can be severely distorted, making reliable recovery difficult. Researchers at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}