STACKABLE INTEGRATED FOCAL PLANE ARRAY WITH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS

The fundamental bottleneck in existing Focal Plan Arrays (FPAs) is that they are able to provide fast and information-lossless data transfer between the FPA and the a massively parallel processor. To overcome this Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a unique 3-D FPA combined with an optoelectronic (OE) parallel multiprocessor system, integrated into a 3-D smart sensor/processor structure with an order of magnitude higher processing power. POC's global solution to this problem including the OE hardware and ultra-fast software, allows direct sensor data processing and will include most of the local operations, as well as global object recognition algorithms capable of executing serial image processing/understanding in parallel (such as early vision algorithms) as well as higher level algorithms such as: pyramidal processing, wavelet processing, morphologic processing and neural networking for object recognition and tracking.