Intelligent vision systems

We have developed a new approach for performing high-bandwidth adaptive optics. Our approach is based on using massively parallel analog wavefront sensing, reconstruction, and compensation. We refer to our integrated adaptive optics system as a “silicon eye” because it operates in many ways analogous to biological retinas. In addition to speed, the silicon eye offers advantages in cost, size, and power consumption. In this paper, we discuss designs for massively parallel wavefront sensors, active pixel centroid circuits, analog wavefront reconstructors, and MEMS micro-mirrors