CCD Cameras

CCD CAMERAS WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES

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The Study Of Circadian Rhythms And Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) Neurons
How does studying jet lag in mice improve our health? A recent study led by Huiyan Li, from the National Center of Biomedical Analysis in Beijing, China is looking to understand how Chronobiology affects our wellbeing.  Continue Reading..
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Chemiluminescence Imaging Of Plants Using A Deep-Cooled CCD
Chemiluminescence imaging combines the sensitive detection of chemiluminescence with the ability to locate and quantify the light emission. It requires high sensitivity combined with long exposure times to detect the few photons emitted by the chemical reaction of interest with the living organisms.  Continue Reading..
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Understanding Electron Multiplying Gain
Electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras can detect very weak signals that would otherwise be lost within the noise floor of the camera. While a conventional CCD requires both long exposure times and slow readout rates, EMCCD cameras use much shorter exposure times and higher readout rates.  Continue Reading..
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History And Development Of EMCCD Technology – What Is Gen III?
The earliest versions of EMCCD (Electron Multiplying CCD) sensors offered a new dimension in imaging that eliminated read noise from an image sensor. This application note provides a comparison between the first, second, and third generations of EMCCD technology.  Continue Reading..
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PentaVac™ Vacuum Technology: Scientific CCD Applications
CCD imaging sensors are used extensively in high-end imaging applications, enabling acquisition of quantitative images with both high (spatial) resolution and high sensitivity. There are some photon-starved applications which require even these highly sensitive devices to be used with both long integration (exposure) times and high amounts of binning (on-chip charge summation) in order to obtain a detectable signal. For these type of...  Continue Reading..
Why Is A Backside Illuminated Sensor More Sensitive Than A Front Side Illuminated Sensor?
Backside illuminated image sensors have fewer obstacles in incoming light's path as it reaches the pixel volume, where the conversion to charge carriers takes place. Thus, BI CMOS image sensors are able to convert more of the light into charge carriers, resulting in larger signals and better images.  Continue Reading..
Solving A Difficult Military Beam Alignment Task
Laser systems used in the periscope of a nuclear-powered submarine providing on-board instrumentation that offers accurate pitch, yaw, and roll data. As a result of the critical nature of this information, the burden is placed on the quality of the laser beam, its size, its shape, and its intensity.   Continue Reading..

CCD CAMERAS PRODUCTS

The Hawk Blue is a cooled HD Camera offering back-illuminated EMCCD technology, enabling ultimate sensitivity imaging (<50μlux) and  high QE of 65% at 254nm.

Raptor offers a range of CCD-based cooled detectors to meet OEM requirements across a range of spectroscopy applications.

The Eagle XO is a high-energy, direct X-ray, open front model of one of the most sensitive CCD cameras in the world. It is ideally suited for use in thin film and nanofiber, holography and lithograph, X-ray microscopy, X-ray plasma diagnostics, and other X-ray imaging applications.

The Eagle XV is a high-energy, direct X-ray, In Vacuum CCD camera ideally designed for use in thin film and nanofiber, holography and lithograph, X-ray microscopy, X-ray plasma diagnostics, and other X-ray imaging applications.

The Falcon III XO is the only high energy direct X-Ray camera using a 1MP Frame Transfer EMCCD sensor. The camera offers a combination of speed and sensitivity for soft X-Ray applications up to 20 KeV.

Raptor Photonics’ Falcon III XV is the latest camera model designed for the in-vacuum X-Ray market and is perfect for imaging very weak X-Ray samples close to UV and VUV, where speed is important.

The Hawk 252 is a cooled HD ultra-sensitive digital EMCCD camera offering back-illuminated EMCCD technology for enabling ultimate sensitivity imaging (< 50μlux).

Raptor Photonics’ Kestrel is a digital monochrome scientific frame transfer EMCCD camera with high sensitivity, speed and resolution, and QE up to 95%. With the EM gain on, it offers less than 1 electrons read noise.

CCD CAMERAS NEWS

CCD CAMERAS VIDEOS

  • Raptor Photonics' Mark Donaghy takes us inside their corporate headquarters in Larne, Northern Ireland (UK), and discusses the company's products, markets, and manufacturing processes and capabilities.

  • Thomas Bauersachs with pco.tech explains what dynamic range is as it relates to a camera’s capabilities and specifications. Watch the video to better understand its importance and how it can affect your imaging application.

  • Marco Snikkers wrapped up our Photonics West 2016 coverage by introducing us to a pixel sensor that acts as an 8-channel spectrometer for biomedical, fluorescence marking, and colorimeter applications, as well as a multi-spectral camera that can monitor specific wavelengths in real-time.

  • Jada-Star Mains, application sales engineer with Ocean Optics, tells us about the Maya2000 Pro NIR.

  • Paul Dempster of Toshiba’s Imaging Systems Division demonstrates the sensitivity and color accuracy advantages of the company’s three-chip high-definition video technology by comparing the performance of Toshiba’s new IK-HD1 three-chip CCD camera with its IK-HR1 single-chip CMOS camera.