Designed to increase the sensitivity of high-speed electronic and video cameras to facilitate recording at higher framing rates allowing better temporal dissection of low light transient events
Specialised Imaging has announced a new range of high gain, UV-sensitive Lens Intensifier Systems (LIS) that enhance low light image capture applications.
The compact and rugged LIS have been designed to increase the sensitivity of high-speed electronic and video cameras to facilitate recording at higher framing rates allowing better temporal dissection of low light transient events.
Incorporating an advanced sub-microsecond decay phosphor on the image intensifier output screen, the LIS allows framing rates of up to 100,000 pictures per second to be recorded without significant loss of image quality.
This unique feature, allied to the high gain and resolution the devices provide, allows users to record events which previously were impossible to capture at the framing rates that facilitate much higher temporal interrogation.
As the input window of the LIS is manufactured from quartz, it transmits UV - allowing the capture of events that emit radiation at these shorter wavelengths.
The broadband sensitivity of the LIS means that they are ideal for applications including engine fuel injection and combustion studies, high-voltage breakdown, flow visualisation, ballistics as well as fluorescence and chemiluminescence recording of low light biological events.
With intuitive operation via a keypad, the LIS provide users with a range of operating parameters that control gain, duration and synchronisation - extending the overall sensitivity of the camera to which the unit has been interfaced.
The control of all these parameters can also be programmed via RS232 from a remote PC situated at a safe distance from the event being recorded.
With electronics refined to interface to a wide range of camera and gating inputs, the LIS enable shortening of effective frame exposure times, thus arresting high-speed motion blurring effects.
The LIS can be provided with a choice of relay lenses that provide compatiblity with most commercially available high-speed electronic and video cameras.
