11 Feb Highly sensitive sCMOS camera
Excelitas Technologies presents the Pco.edge 9.4 bi CLHS, which it claims is its first sCMOS science camera with an extremely low readout noise of 0.3 e-. In combination with a very good quantum efficiency of 85 %, the camera is said to enable detection sensitivity in the range of photon counting. With a high-resolution 9.4 megapixel image sensor and a square pixel size of 4.6 μm x 4.6 µm, the camera has a diagonal of 21.6 mm, providing an area for large image circles.
According to the manufacturer, microlenses and additional measures such as ‘deep trench isolation’ in the semiconductor material to reduce crosstalk result in a high modulation transfer function (MTF) value for the image sensor used. A fiber-optic camera link high-speed interface (CLHS) in a compact connector enables fast data transfer rates of up to 4.9 GByte/s. Excelitas offers an optional software suite for the camera and provides support for camera integration into application systems.
According to Excelitas, applications include light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM/SPIM), structured illumination microscopy (SIM), confocal spinning disk microscopy, double image recording for spectral analyses with beam splitters, high-contrast imaging and polarization studies.
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