Infrared focal plane array camera series incorporates a range of technological innovations with frame rates up to 400 images per second
Specialist in thermal IR camera technology, Cedip Infrared Systems has released its Silver series - a new infrared focal plane array camera series incorporating a range of technological innovations.
Silver is a new generation of IR camera based upon high performance cryogenically cooled staring array detectors. The Silver camera offers fast frame rates up to 400 images per second in full frame and several tens of kilohertz in sub-windowing mode while maintaining high sensitivity of less than 20mK.
Built for operational flexibility, the Silver provides leading edge performance in both the two main IR wavebands 3-5um and 8-12um.
The Silver also provides a choice of spatial resolution either 320x256 pixels (300 series) or 640x512 pixels (600 series).
Benefiting from a completely new design cycle, the most innovative technical solutions have been implemented providing maximum compatability and operational versatility with standard computers and third party image processing software.
The Silver series comes standard with a USB2 output for controlling the camera and a digital video output, while the fast frame rate operation makes use of the standard Camlink interface commonly found in the image processing and the vision system world.
The use of these standard interfaces ensures maximum user flexibility facilitating easy integration with third party image processing software and ready implementation into process control lines.
The optical front end, built into the camera, allows rapid and precise focusing of the lens to be controlled remotely. Additional lenses can be added through a bayonet mount enabling the Silver series to be used for applications ranging from microscopic examination up to long range measurements.
A removable filter wheel, entirely accessible to the user for exchanging filters, has been implemented for applications requiring multispectral filtering.
The calibration curves for Silver series cameras can be determined and loaded directly from software further extending the possibilities for research and development applications where flexibility is needed.
The radiometric performance of the Silver series has been optimised to offer absolute temperature measurement with the highest accuracy available from this technology.
The extended dynamic range previously available as an option on Cedip Jade series cameras is now offered as a standard feature on the Silver series.
