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News Release from: Specialised Imaging | Subject: Sim multi-channel framing camera
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 December 2005
Camera can capture fast transient events
Incorporating high resolution image intensifiers, the Sim multi-channel framing camera from Specialised Imaging can capture images for accurate, high-speed spatial analysis of transient events.
Incorporating high resolution image intensifiers, the Sim multi-channel framing camera from Specialised Imaging can capture images for accurate, high-speed spatial analysis of transient events The optical design provides the choice of four, six, eight or 16 separate optical channels without comprising performance or image quality
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Camera captures 200,000,000 frames in a second
Unlike traditional high-speed framing cameras the optical design of the SIM provides the choice of four, six, eight or 16 separate optical channels without comprising performance or image quality.
Camera system offers 16 optical channels
An optical periscope for focus adjustment enables rapid and simple experimental setup and optimisation.
Effects such as parallax and shading are eliminated and the 50 lp/mm spatial resolution is the same frame to frame and in both axes.
Individual high resolution intensified CCD detectors provide control over gain and exposure allowing researchers freedom to capture images of even the most difficult transient phenomena.
The ability to mount individual filters on each optical channel provides flexible spectral selectivity.
As it can be configured as a true eight or 16 channel camera, it can provide clear images of rapid processes without any of the artefacts associated with CCD retriggering or repetetively pulsed image intensifiers.
Referenced to a 200MHz quartz crystal clock, the Sim is capable of data acquisition rates of up to 200 million frame/s for all 16 channels providing the low nanosecond exposures necessary for the temporal dissection of phenomena such as laser ablation, high voltage breakdown, combustion research, fluorescence decay, crack propagation, impact mechanics and nanotechnology applications.
The eight-channel version provides a supplementary port allowing secondary instruments, such as high speed video, time resolved spectrometer or streak cameras, to share the same optical axis as the framing channels.
An integral TFT monitor lets users see what the camera sees in real-time.
Focusing functions can be controlled locally at the camera while full remote operation is achieved over Ethernet cabling.
Optional fibre optic communications is available for electrically noisy environments.
Operational software provides control of imaging parameters and measurement tools to analyse results.
Image archiving in various industry standard file formats is supported.
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