Many factors contribute to the aberrations induced in an optical system, At
mospheric turbulence between the object and the imaging system, physical or
thermal perturbations in optical elements degrade the system's point sprea
d function, and misaligned optics are the primary sources of aberrations th
at affect image quality. The design of a nonconventional real-time adaptive
optic system using a micro-mirror device for wavefront correction is prese
nted, The unconventional compensated imaging system presented offers advant
ages in speed, cost, power consumption, and weight. A pulsed-coupled neural
network is used to as a preprocessor to enhance the performance of the wav
efront sensor for low-light applications. Modeling results that characteriz
e the system performance are presented.