One step closer to having tricorders hopefully, probably bullshit though.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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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”
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.
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.
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.
It's the SCiO all over again
https://spectrum.ieee.org/angry-kickstarter-backers-ask-scio-wheres-my-pocketsized-molecular-sensor