Optical analog computing of two-dimensional spatial differentiation based on the Brewster effect.

Optical analog computing has attracted widespread attention in recent decades due to its advantages of lower consumption, higher efficiency, and real-time imaging in image processing. Here, we propose a two-dimensional optical analog computing scheme based on the Brewster effect. We experimentally demonstrate two-dimensional edge detection with high efficiency. By combining microscopy, our approach may develop some significant applications in cellular and molecular imaging.

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