Sensitive Board Level Camera

Hamamatsu Photonics introduce the new C10000 TDI (time delay integration) board level CCD camera, which is the most sensitive line scan camera in the world and features the latest high speed, high sensitivity, back thinned CCD image sensor.

The newly developed Hamamatsu CCD sensor features 2048 pixel length by 128 pixel height, with 90 % peak quantum efficiency, high UV sensitivity and a very high speed data readout of up to 50 kHz line rates. Ordinarily high speed imaging systems suffer from a lack of available light and special illumination systems need to be constructed. However, using the TDI image acquisition method the C10000 board camera synchronises charge transfer with the moving object. This gives 128 times the image integration of a conventional line sensor, and when combined with the high sensitivity of the back thinned CCD chip, results in a greater output of two or three orders of magnitude compared to a regular line scan camera.