Andor Technology has announced the launch of the new Istar range of scientific-grade ICCDs for rapid, nanosecond time-resolved imaging and spectroscopy.
Andor's Istar is said to extract the best from CCD sensor and gated image-intensifier technologies, achieving a combination of rapid acquisition rates and ultra-high sensitivity down to single photon.
Detection performances are accessed through high quantum-efficiency image intensifiers, thermo-electric cooling to -40C, 500kHz photocathode gating rates and enhanced intensifier EBI noise reduction.
Low jitter, low insertion delay gating electronics and nanosecond-scale optical gating provide timing accuracy down to few 10s of picoseconds, allowing ultra-precise synchronisation of complex experiments through Istar's range of input/output triggering options.
The ultrafast Istar platform can achieve acquisition speeds of over 29,000 spectrum per second, while offering very low readout and thermal noise, as well as an intensifier offering up to 50 per cent QE.
The Istar seamlessly interfaces to Andor's range of high-end spectrographs to provide fully integrated, pre-aligned and pre-calibrated detection solutions for challenging spectroscopy applications.
