Home
Agriculture
Apparel
Building Materials
Chemicals
Electronics & Electrical
Food & Beverage
Industry Supplies
Minerals
Textiles
Computers | Electrical Components | Electrical Equipment | Telecommunications

World's First 16-Frame Ultra-High Speed Camera Delivered

http://www.photonicsonline.com/article.mvc/Worlds- [2008-6-25]

Tag : Optical Fiber Frame

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has recently delivered the World's first16 channel camera capable of capturing images at 200,000,000 framesper second with gating down to 5ns to the UK's EPSRC EngineeringInstrument Pool, which is run for the EPSRC by the STFC RutherfordAppleton Laboratory at Didcot in Oxfordshire.
The Pool loans high specification instruments to UKuniversity-based researchers to perform leading edge research wherethe ultimate image resolution and speed are required. AdrianWalker, Manager of the Engineering Instrument Pool at the STFC said"initial experiments using the new SIM-16 ultra-fast framing cameraby the Material Science Department at the University of Oxford haveproduced some exciting results". He added "other leading UKresearch groups are now lining up to gain access to the SIM-16 toaddress imaging challenges in applications including plasma physicsand effects of cavitation in turbines."
Originally introduced in 2006 the expanding SIM framing camerarange has generated considerable interest in industrial andacademic research groups around the world. Applications for ultrahigh speed multiple framing cameras include material studies(impact mechanics, crack propagation, impact deformation),automotive (combustion research), aerospace (stress failure,aerodynamic performance), high voltage electrical dischargeresearch, plasma display studies and microdevices (dynamics ofoperation).
Wai Chan, Managing Director of Specialised Imaging Ltd. commented,"The new SIM-16 framing camera was designed to extend theanalytical gathering capacity of high-speed data from ultra fastevents. Our system uniquely is able to eliminate effects such asparallax and shading, inherent in other designs, and the highspatial resolution (> 50 lp/mm) is the same frame to frame andin both axes. We have also overcome simultaneous high-speed imagecapture problems by incorporating an optical port into the primarybeamsplitter to which various secondary recording instrumentationcan be interfaced. The SIM optical port framing camera not onlyenables direct interfacing with high-speed video, a streak cameraor a time resolved spectrometer but also offers the added advantagethat the secondary recording is made from the same opticalviewpoint as the ultra fast discrete image sequence."
The SIM-16 framing camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. takes takesthe capture of images for accurate, high-speed spatial analysis offast transient events to a new level. Unlike traditional high-speedframing cameras the unique optical design of the SIM provides thechoice of 4, 6, 8 or even 16 separate optical channels withoutcomprising performance or image quality. An integral TFT monitorallows users to 'see what the camera sees' in real-time, thusallowing users to easily optimise focus and lighting to achievespectacular results. All imaging Focusing functions can becontrolled from the intuitive local keypad for setup, arecan becontrolled locally at the camera while full remote operation isachieved over standard Ethernet cabling enabling the SIM-16 to beeasily integrated into almost any environment. Optional fibre opticcommunications are available when the camera is used inelectrically noisy environments. Comprehensive operational softwareprovides simple control of imaging parameters and extensivemeasurement tools to accurately analyse results. Image archiving ina wide range of industry standard file formats is supported.


Hot Products: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0-9