product focus - optics · optics.org: 2 alexandra gate, ffordd pengam, cardiff cf24 2sa, united...

optics.org: 2 Alexandra Gate, Ffordd Pengam, Cardiff CF24 2SA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)117 905 5330 Fax: +44 (0)117 905 5331

product focusWelcome to our latest Product Focus which we have published specifically for VISION 2012.

Here you can see products from both exhibitors and non-exhibitors alike. We have included booth numbers (where available) making it easy for you to check out the products for yourself.

Also included in this handy product guide are news stories about the e2v sensor aboard the SPOT-6 satellite and Daylight

Solutions progress in the development of a quantum cascade laser to reduce cancer diagnosis times now that it has secured funding from the US National Science Foundation.

We’re publishing further issues of the optics.org Product Focus for Photonics West, Defense, Security, and Sensing and LASER World of Photonics. To ensure that your product is included, contact optics.org as soon as possible as space will be limited.

...exceptional dynamics with scientific CMOS at 2560 x 2160 pixels and 100 frames/sThe scientifc CMOS camera system pco.edge achieves thermo-electrically controlled at 5°C an intra-scene dynamic of better than 1 : 27000, due to the low readout noise of 1.1median electrons.

This can be used efficiently for example in 3D metrology with highly reflecting (non-cooperative) surfaces.

Further a frame rate of 100 frames/s can be recorded at a resolution of 2560 x 2160 pixels up to the RAM limit of the computer or even more in an appropriate RAID-system. For this purpose a Camera Link Full interface is used.

The pco.edge is available with monochrome and color image sensors and features a compact and small casing. Therefore the pco.edge is suitable from low light applications with only a few photons up to high contrast applications.

Contact DetailsPCO AG, Donaupark 11, 93309 Kelheim, Germany [email protected]: +49 (0)9441 2005 0Sales: +49 (0)9441 2005 50 Fax: +49 (0)9441 2005 20

PCO AG Visit us in Hall 1-1G32

2012 Edition


optics.org product focus Vision 2012 Edition2

SPOT-6, the new Earth observation satellite launched in early September, has delivered its first high-resolution images, including shots of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy, and Bora Bora island in French Polynesia.

The images, captured by the “NAOMI” (New AstroSat Optical Modular Instrument) telescopic camera developed and built at EADS Astrium, rely on a high-performance CCD sensor provided by the UK firm e2v Technologies.

Along with “SPOT-7”, which is due to launch in January 2014, SPOT-6 will join the existing Pleiades 1A satellite, eventually forming a complete optical constellation offering high-resolution imagery of all parts of the globe within a given 24-hour cycle.

Astrium Services will then distribute the images for applications in security and defence, as well as agriculture, deforestation studies, civil engineering and the oil and gas industry.

Michel Tulet, head of the detection department within the Optical Instruments Division at EADS Astrium in France, said that the camera development team was “fully satisfied” with the performance delivered by the e2v detectors, adding: “Three NAOMI instruments are now already delivering high-quality images from low-Earth orbit and four others will join them in the coming months.”

e2v says that the back-illuminated CCD sensors on board the SPOT-6 satellite

include some state-of-the-art features, helping to combine wide-area coverage with an image resolution down to just 1.5 meters – compared with 2.5 meters for the previous generation of SPOT-4 and SPOT-5 surveillance satellites.

Many versions of the NAOMI instrument have already been developed, offering swath widths of between 10 km and 60 km. All of the imagers are based on the same telescope concept and the SPOT-6

& SPOT-7 satellites actually feature two cameras in the same instrument, to offer both panchromatic and multispectral operation.

The optical assembly is based on a Korsch-type telescope including three aspheric mirrors and two folding mirrors, while EADS Astrium says that the multispectral camera detects across four wavelength bands, ranging from 455 nm in the blue to 890 nm in the near-infrared.

“NAOMI” camera on board SPOT-6 satellite launched last month is based around a high-performance CCD chip.

e2v sensor returns high-res satellite images

continued on back page

QC laser microscope to slash cancer diagnosis timeDaylight Solutions to develop commercial prototype of “game-changing” instrument that will yield results in minutes rather than days.The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded quantum cascade laser (QCL) pioneer Daylight Solutions just over $420,000 to help commercialize a new kind of microscope that promises to reduce cancer diagnosis times drastically.

The Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) grant follows initial work under a $149,000 Phase I award last year to demonstrate that a broadly tunable infrared microscope based on QCL sources and microbolometer detectors was feasible.

This image of Bora Bora island in French Polynesia, taken from the SPOT-6 satellite in low-Earth orbit, provides a ground resolution of just 1.5 meters.

Copy

right

: Ast

rium

Ser

vice

s.

Now the company will spend two years working to develop a commercial prototype and prepare for a production scale-up, with the NSF describing the technology as a “game-changer” for infrared microscopy in automated cancer screening.

Today, cancer screening is dominated by histology, in which thin slices of tissue from biopsies are analyzed by specialists. But the technique is time-consuming and flawed. Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers can be used instead, but the nature of the scanning optical system


optics.org product focus Vision 2012 Edition 3

JAI introduces a new line of cutting-edge industrial CMOS and CCD camerasThe JAI Group introduces a new line of leading edge industrial CMOS cameras, as well as the first model in a new series of high fidelity CCD cameras.

The performance-driven cameras are targeted at applications where the combination of resolution and frame rates is pushing data rates to new levels. The first three of these cameras include a 20-megapixel model offering 30 frames per second, a 2-megapixel model running at 280 fps, and a 5-megapixel camera capable of 210 fps at full resolution.

Contact DetailsJAI GroupValby Torvegade 17, 1st floor2500 Valby, Denmark [email protected]: +45 4457 8888Fax: +45 4491 3252

JAI A/S Visit us in Hall 1-1F52

e2v exhibits new 2MP image sensor e2v will be presenting their latest CMOS image sensor products at Vision 2012.

The new 2 megapixel (1600 x 1200) sensor is the latest arrival to the e2v Sapphire family of multi-shutter mode CMOS image sensors.

It will be displayed on the e2v booth with demos designed to show their unique industrial vision application features and benefits.

Visit e2v in Hall 1 stand E22 to see demos and get more info.

Contact Detailse2v106 Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 2QU United [email protected]: +44 (0)1245 493 493

e2v Visit us in Hall 1-E22

ORCA-Flash4.0 2nd generation sCMOS cameraHamamatsu Photonics will introduce at the Vision Show 2012, the exciting new upgrade to their ORCA-Flash4.0 2nd generation sCMOS camera – the ORCA-Flash4.0 USB with CameraLink and USB 3.0 output connections.

The ORCA-Flash4.0 USB is the optimum solution for those applications requiring the highest sensitivity scientific CMOS camera on the market, but lower frame rates (up to 30 frames per second).

You can see a live demo of the ORCA-Flash4.0 USB and the extensive range of products from Hamamatsu at stand 1H13.

Contact DetailsHamamatsu Photonics EuropeArzbergerstr. 10,D-82211 Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany [email protected]

Hamamatsu Photonics Visit us in Hall 1-H13

World Premiere: AVT Mako with GigE Vision and USB3 Vision interface Mako is a small industrial camera with a Gigabit Ethernet Interface (GigE Vision) and Power over Ethernet.

The Mako will be AVT’s first camera available with two digital interfaces: alongside GigE Vision, this new model will also be available with a USB3 Vision interface.

Following AVT active participation in the definition of this standard for the machine vision industry, the company now presents its first USB3 Vision camera model.

Contact DetailsAllied Vision Technologies GmbHTaschenweg 2a07646 StadtrodaGermany [email protected]: +49 36428/677-0Fax: +49 36428/677-24

Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Visit us in Hall 1-F62

Manta: high resolution and multi-tap sensors The Manta camera series is expanding with six new models in the upper resolution range.

Worth particular notice are the Manta G-282 and Manta G-917, the first industrial cameras with the new Sony ICX687 (2.8 megapixels) and ICX814 (9.2 megapixels) multi-tap sensors.

Along with the new high-resolution Sony CCD models, AVT is also presenting two new models with CMOS sensors from CMOSIS: the Manta G-223 (CMV2000 sensor with 2.2 megapixels) and Manta G-419 (CMV4000 with 4.2 megapixels).

Contact DetailsAllied Vision Technologies GmbHTaschenweg 2a07646 StadtrodaGermany [email protected]: +49 36428/677-0Fax: +49 36428/677-24

Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Visit us in Hall 1-F62

Smallest SWIR GigE cameraThe affordable ultra-compact and high resolution Bobcat-640-GigE SWIR camera comes with an industry-standard GigE Vision interface for easy integration in your own system.

You get excellent image quality with on-board image processing and Thermo Electric (TE) stabilization for low dark current and optimized noise performance.

We offer full flexibility in terms of Xenics SDK, multiple interfaces, Power over Ethernet and variable integration times.

Contact DetailsXenics Infrared SolutionsXenics headquartersAmbachtenlaan 44BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium [email protected]: +32 16 38 99 00

Xenics Infrared Solutions Visit us in Hall 1-D82


optics.org product focus Vision 2012 Edition4

continued from page 2

QC laser microscope to slash cancer diagnosis timeand its need for cooled mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) infrared detectors means that such tools are bulky, expensive and slow.

“Recent research demonstrates that infrared microscopy offers the resolution and tissue identification capabilities necessary for it to be used in automated algorithms for cancer screening,” notes the NSF’s abstract on the topic, but adds:

“In spite of this potential usefulness, infrared microscopy has been confined to select laboratories. This is in part due to existing FTIR technology that does not allow the reduction in size and cost, nor increase in acquisition speed and resolution, necessary to make infrared microscopy a common analytical technique.”

Cancer screening time “reduced to three minutes”

Systems featuring MCT detectors have an added disadvantage, in that the sensor technology is export-controlled by the US Department of State because it is widely used in military applications.

But with advances in QCL technology now supporting broadly tunable laser sources that operate across the mid-infrared region – the part of the spectrum that holds crucial “chemical fingerprint” data in the form of light absorption caused molecular

Daylight’s working prototype infrared microscope, featuring quantum cascade lasers and microbolometer detectors. A new two-year project funded by the NSF should result in a full commercial prototype model that can be used for automated, high-speed screening of biopsies to check for signs of cancer.

Cred

it: D

aylig

ht S

olut

ions

.

by molecular vibrations – that looks set to change.

“The QCL microscope to be built in Phase II will revolutionize infrared microscopy instrumentation,” continues the NSF abstract. “Based on demonstrated performance of components in Phase I, it is estimated that the time to screen a tissue array for signs of cancer will be reduced from six days with a FTIR microscope to just three minutes with a QCL microscope.”

As well as using different light sources, the QCL microscope now under development also uses different detectors. Unlike MCT sensors, microbolometer focal plane arrays (FPAs) are not export-controlled. Until recently, however, they have not been suitable for an infrared microscope because of a relative lack of sensitivity in the mid-infrared.

But now the higher output powers possible thanks to advances in QCL laser technology and Daylight’s external-cavity designs means that microbolometers can be used. Earlier this year, the company released a new range of mode-hop-free lasers spanning the mid-infrared wavelength range between 4 µm and 10.5 µm.

Daylight says that the Phase I part of the NSF-backed microscope development yielded a bench-top instrument capable of generating a full infrared image at every pixel contained within an image.

In the tests conducted so far, the working prototype has been used mostly to image pharmaceutical and chemical samples, and the company told optics.org that it had

To announce your new product or to ensure your existing products get the

visibility they deserve and are put in front of the industry’s key decision makers, make

sure you are in the next issue of optics.org product focus.

Contact one of our sales team on +44 (0)117 905 5330

email [email protected]

or visit us online to download the latest product focus media pack

optics.org/advertise

now identified a number of researchers willing to provide biopsy-like samples during the next stage of development.

In a statement announcing the Phase II award, the company’s president and COO Paul Larson echoed the “game-changing” potential in chemical imaging, adding that aside from medical diagnostics, the technology also had potential commercial use in forensics and food safety applications.

ELiiXA+ 8k/4k line scan camera At Vision 2012, e2v is launching the new ELiiXA+ 8k/4k line scan camera.

Developed thanks to e2v’s recently developed multi-line CMOS technology, the ELiiXA+ 8k/4k camera provides an unmatched 100,000 lines/s with the two most wanted resolutions - available in the same camera (8192 and 4096 pixels).

Two models are available with Medium Camera Link interface and Full/Deca Camera Link interface.

Visit e2v in Hall 1 stand E22 to see the new camera and find out more.

www.e2v.com/cameras

Contact Detailse2v106 Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 2QU United [email protected]: +44 (0)1245 493 493

e2v Visit us in Hall 1-E22

product focus - optics · optics.org: 2 alexandra gate, ffordd pengam, cardiff cf24 2sa, united...

Documents