FEATURES

  • High sensitivity frame transfer Impactron™ CCD
  • High Resolution 1000x1000 pixels
  • Electronically Variable Charge Domain Gain
  • Very Low Noise operation
  • No shutter required

 

    APPLICATIONS

    With its small pixel size, the camera is ideal for live cell and confocal microscopy, single molecule fluorescence or calcium ratio imaging.

    On chip signal amplification up to 1000:1 will benefit flux hungry applications such as in vivo luminescence imaging, chemi-luminescent gel analysis where traditionally photon-counting techniques are used.

    This high quantum efficiency camera permits detection of bacteria colonies or multi-labelled low light fluorescence imaging, as in high throughput screening, by providing drastic exposure time reduction and improved duty cycles.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

Resolution 1004x1002 pixels EM-CCD
Pixel size 8 micron pixels
Read out rate 17.5MHz (35MHz optional)
Digitisation 12 bit 16 bit digitisation
Frame rate 17 f·p·s at 20MHz
Cooling D–54°C, to minimise dark current
Full well capacity 30,000 electrons/pixel
On-chip binning 1x1 to 8x8
EM amplification 1000x (typical 2000x at ambient of 22°C)
   
   
Peltier cooling Fan can be switch off for short periods
Read out modes Full CCD, windowing (any size/shape) and binning, with 100 frames a second or better
Gain Electron multiplier gain from 1 up to 1000 times
Hermetically sealed housing Designed for deep cooling
Spectral response
400nm-1080nm — See Graph    
Output Camera Link digital data output
Read out LVDS or FireWire 1394
Trigger mode Allows image capture on demand
Camera size Head 100mm x 100mm x 100mm
Camera Weight 1.30kg
Mains voltage via small power supply

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION

A choice of LVDS or FireWire interface will guarantee system performance, integrity and ease of integration. The CoolView T1000 comes complete with a comprehensive range of software drivers and generic hardware which enable straightforward camera/system integration and upgrades.

 

CoolView T1000

 
Photonic Science’s latest camera has single photon counting capabilities, using the Impactron™ CCD from Texas Instruments. This high resolution, photon counting camera gives crisp, fast images and can be run binned for fast 16-bit higher speed readout.

In this device on chip charge multiplication within the CCD, an “impact ionisation process”, allows the charge to be amplified in the CCD before the sensor is read out thereby dramatically increasing signal above the readout noise.

This device is having a major influence in low light, dynamic cellular and fluorescent microscopy.

Cooling of D–54°C produces minimised readout noise that allows imaging photon counting that does not require either an image intensifier or long integrations and slow scan read out. The deep chilling allows for 12 and 16-bit digitisation and benefits from negligible dark current.

The CoolView T1000 gives fast, low light level, high-resolution images, processed to 12 or 16 bits, with the flexibility of windowing, binning, software and hardware triggering.