Welcome to Iris AO, Inc.

Iris AO, Inc. is building small scale, micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) based adaptive optics (AO) systems that offer radical advantages in cost, size, power consumption, durability and flexibility. Iris AO systems make AO practical for a host of new applications, including retinal and biomedical imaging, portable laser communications and horizontal imaging.

Our manufacturing process is designed from the outset to enable extremely large stroke, low cost, small size and scalability to meet of imaging applications. In addition to the deformable mirrior technology, Iris AO manufactures calibrated high-voltage high-channel-count drive electronics, AO controllers, and development systems. Factory calibration makes Iris AO's systems easy to operate and ready to use out of the box, dramatically reducing development time.

Featured Products

• High Voltage Drive Electronics
  Smart Driver II – 128 channels
  Smart Driver II – 512 channels
• Deformable Mirrors
  S37-5
  S37-8 (available Q1 – 09)
  S163-5 (Beta available Q3-09)
• AO Development Systems
  AO Engine
  AO Development Kit
  OEM Systems
  

Embedded system under development, contact Iris AO engineers for details

Latest News

• January 2009
  Iris AO teams with AMO Wavefront Sciences to demonstrate a high-speed AO development kit at Photonics West 2009.
• November 2008
  Iris AO wins a Phase I SBIR contract from NASA JPL for pathfinding research into a 1000-segment class deformable mirror.
• November 2008
  Iris AO wins a Phase I SBIR contract from the USAF to develop mirror technologies for a variable zoom system.
• June 2008
  Iris AO demonstrates dielectric coatings applied to the S37-X segmented DM.
• March 2008
  Iris AO wins a Phase II SBIR contract from the NSF to develop a DSP-based AO control system suitable for OEM applications.