Electrophysics® Offers Additional Options for Infrared Imaging With the Silver™ 220S High-Performance Infrared Camera
At this year’s Photonics West, Electrophysics, a leader in infrared imaging systems, will be showcasing the Silver 220S high-performance, short wave infrared camera. Further extending the Silver family of imaging systems launched at the show, including the 420M and 450M, the Silver 220S is the ideal thermal camera for a wide range of infrared applications, including imaging spectroscopy, laser beam analysis, R&D and target signature analysis.
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2006 -- At this year’s Photonics West, Electrophysics, a leader in infrared imaging systems, will be showcasing the Silver 220S high-performance, short wave infrared camera. Further extending the Silver family of imaging systems launched at the show, including the 420M and 450M, the Silver 220S is the ideal thermal camera for a wide range of infrared applications, including imaging spectroscopy, laser beam analysis, R&D and target signature analysis. The launch of the 220S further demonstrates Electrophysics’ dedication to offering the most comprehensive and technologically advanced line of infrared imaging systems for a variety of applications across the entire infrared spectrum.
Silver 220S
Unlike SWIR imaging systems based on the Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs) crystal, the Silver 220S’s 320x256 Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) focal plane array provides a broader spectral response ranging from 0.8 to 2.5μm. The broader response, combined with the 220S’s high QE (>70%), is particularly important for users dealing with applications that require excellent sensitivity at infrared wave-lengths to 2500nm, such as the water absorption band at 1.95 microns. Featuring variable “snapshot” integration from 1μs to 10ms, and interchangeable C-mount optics, which give the user the ability to configure the camera for specific target geometries, the Silver 220S is the ideal system for applications such as laser beam profiling and analysis.
Like its sibling the Silver 420M, the Silver 220S boasts a full format programmable frame rate, ranging from 1hz to 100hz. The Silver 220S is also capable of sub-array windowing, with the capability to capture images at up to 400hz in a 320x64 sub-window format.
Silver 420M & 450M
The Silver 420M and 450M utilize an ultra-sensitive, 320x256 InSb focal plane array sensor that offers users sensitivity better than 20mK, while keeping an extraordinary dynamic range and high linearity across the 3 to 5μm mid-wave spectral range. The cameras incorporate an integral 25mm lens, featuring motorized focus and optional extenders that provide the application specific field of view and target geometry.
Users can also take advantage of the 420M and 450M’s ultra-fast, full format programmable frame rates, ranging from 1hz to 100hz for the Silver 420M and 1hz to 400hz for the Silver 450M. Both models also offer user-friendly and flexible sub-windowing modes, which are adjustable in 1 μs increments. In 80x64 sub-window format, users can capture infrared images at up to 1,000hz with the Silver 420M and up to 20,000hz with the Silver 450M. The cameras also incorporate an optional internal filter wheel that accepts up to four separate 25mm OD x1mm filters for viewing sub-spectral ranges.
User Friendly Design
Truly plug-and-play, the Silver series of high-performance IR cameras are among the most user-friendly imaging systems available for thermography applications. With USB 2.0 output for digital video or optional CAMLINK for more demanding users (standard on the Silver 450M), the Silver requires no proprietary frame grabber cards. The Silver family also features low noise 14-bit digital electronics, which with user performed calibration, provides fully-radiometric IR imagery at any selected integration setting. The Silver is also designed to interface with ALTAIR™, Electrophysics’ powerful image-capture and analysis workstation featuring a wide complement of tools including radiometric measurements.
Like all Electrophysics imaging solutions, the Silver family of high-performance IR cameras is backed by Electrophysics’ knowledgeable and dedicated customer service support staff.
Headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey, Electrophysics develops advanced near infrared, night vision and thermal imaging systems for use in a host of imaging applications. Since 1969, Electrophysics has maintained its focus on delivering products that reflect the company’s exceptional engineering capabilities to meet specific real world demands while keeping pace with rapidly evolving imaging technologies. The Company has realized exceptional growth as a result of its customer-centric philosophy and remains firmly committed to continually innovating its products in order to enhance the experience of end-users. Electrophysics is vertically integrated with expertise in complex signal processing, optics, embedded software, PC software applications development and hardware design.
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