Imaging Articles

41. Fiber Optic Image Bundles Provide A Solution When High Tech Approaches Fail 7/16/2019

    Wound Fiber Bundles offer a passive way to transfer images from remote locations even when power isn’t available. The technology can be used in extreme environments and to view hard-to-access areas.

42. How Can Extreme Geometries Solve Dental Light Delivery Challenges? 5/31/2019

    New fabrication technology is enabling rigid fiber light guide geometries that were previously impossible. This advancement is enabling smaller instruments and new designs for dental handpieces featuring illumination and curing devices.

43. Improving Microscopy And Biological Imaging With Backside Illuminated (BI) sCMOS Sensors 5/20/2019

    Biological labs can get better and more quantifiable image data from microscopes with sCMOS sensor-based devices.

44. OEMs: Expand Your Product Portfolio With sCMOS Sensors 5/20/2019

    OEMs can enhance their products with expanded capabilities and attract customers by incorporating scientific CMOS sensor technology.

45. Foreign Object Detection In Food Inspection And Sorting 5/16/2019

    Food inspection, in connection with automated sorting and classification methods, has become a major field of application for advanced image capture systems and infrared cameras. This case study tells how Xenics' line scan SWIR camera Lynx is used for complex imaging tasks.

46. Introduction To Sony Pregius Global Shutter CMOS: High-Speed CMOS Sensor With Distortion-Free Global Shutter Technology 12/11/2018

    Sony's Pregius global shutter CMOS technology truly fulfills its promise: crisp, clear, distortion-free images at high speeds. regius offers significant performance gains, and with its newly-announced third generation, additional on-sensor features.

47. Imaging Reflective Surfaces: Getting Started with On-sensor Polarization 12/11/2018

    Many vision systems struggle to overcome the effects of reflections and glare on reflective surfaces like glass, plastic and metal. Sony’s newest sensor technology can solve this problem with its pixel-level polarizer structure. This technology enables Sony polarized sensors to detect both the amount and angle of polarized light across a scene.

48. Top 10 Reasons To Be Excited About 10GigE 12/11/2018

    This article offers the 10 top reasons to be excited about FLIR's 10GigE machine vision camera.

49. Hyperspectral Imaging Improves Surface Mine Mapping Processes 11/15/2018

    Traditional methods of mapping surface mines have inherent challenges to obtaining data with enough detail to allow effective tactical and strategic decision making. Hyperspectral infrared imaging eliminates the problems.

50. Why Is A Backside Illuminated Sensor More Sensitive Than A Front Side Illuminated Sensor? 10/16/2018

    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.