Infra-red cameras tackle many applications

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 3, 2005

Electrophysics has introduced its PV-320 series of infra-red imagers, which is suitable for a variety of applications including temperature analysis, NDT, medical imaging and metrology.

Electrophysics has introduced its PV-320 series of infra-red imagers.

Underscored by a host of features, the PV-320 is one of the most technically advanced line of imaging systems available, and is suitable for a variety of applications including temperature analysis, laser beam profiling, NDT, medical imaging and metrology.

A number of interchangeable lenses and filters are available for the PV-320 which further allows users to optimise the camera for multiple applications.

The PV-320 comprises three distinct models, in the A, T and L series.

The A series features a diffusing chopper and is ideal for high dynamic range or wide ambient temperature environment application, including outdoor surveillance.

The T series features factory calibration for temperature readings up to 500C while the L series features an opaque chopper and a variety of detector window packages, which minimise fringing when viewing lasers between 1 and 16um.

"Unlike other uncooled sensors such as microbolometers, the PV-320's uncooled ferroelectric focal plane array offers a unique set of features that allows the camera to be used in applications outside the traditional 8-14um response window", said Chris Alicandro, Director of Sales for Electrophysics.

"Users also benefit from the PV-320's plug and play capability because the USB 2.0 digital output allows the camera to be effortlessly interfaced with any laptop, PC or computer system".

With 0.08C of sensitivity and 2% accuracy, users can rely on the PV-320 to identify the finest thermal details giving them the ability to make steadfast, intelligent decisions based on their object measurements.

The PV-320 is also the only broadband, uncooled imaging system available to professionals worldwide.

Like all Electrophysics imaging solutions, the PV-320 is backed by knowledgeable and dedicated customer service support staff.

Each of the PV-320 imagers boasts a compact (14 x 11.4 x 11.4cm), rugged, all-metal alloy chassis and incorporates L3's 320 x 240 (76,800 pixels) BST uncooled focal plane array running at video rate and delivering 80mK sensitivity.

End users can also take advantage of the PV-320's USB 2.0 real-time 14bit digital output for direct connection to any PC or laptop.

Software drivers for LabView, C++ and Visual Basic are available to system developers to facilitate the integration of the PV-320 into a wide range of existing systems.

In addition, Electrophysics also offers Velocity, a real-time image capture and analysis software package capable of time verses temperature plotting, exporting data and sequence (AVI) movie file creation.

Three versions of the software package are available to meet very basic camera control and computer display of real-time thermal images to a full radiometric analysis suite of functions.