Bright Silicon Technologies is commercializing the Lightfield Directing Array for precision digital control of light. Originally developed for high-performance defense applications within Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Bright Lightfield Directing Array offers a number of highly-differentiated features:

• Combines low-cost benefits of silicon microfabrication with flexibility of additive manufacturing

• Ability to trade off high-speed (10's of kHz) and large range of motion (10's of degrees)

• Arbitrarily large apertures comprised of arrays of independently controlled mirrors

• Full tip / tilt / piston control for 3D coherent beam control

• High fill factor (>99%) to maximize SNR and support high-power applications

• Stable operation under shock and vibration through innovative mirror constraints

• Closed-loop control for precise positioning across operational and environmental variations

The Bright Silicon Technologies Lightfield Directing Array provides breakthrough performance across a number of high-impact applications:

• LIDAR - Robust performance at a cost point for automotive / UAV applications

• 3D Printing - High-power, fully adaptive beam management for improved speed and quality

• AR / VR - Compact packaging for mobile adaptive image generation

• Optical Communications - Precision pointing alternative to gimbals and fast-steering mirrors

• Optical Control - Coherent wavefront control, beam combining, optical switching arrays...