Photonic Science Limited
Millham
Mountfield
ROBERTSBRIDGE
East Sussex
TN32 5LA
UK

Photonic Science Limited
Grenoble Air Parc
Rue Maryse Bastie
38590 St Etienne de St Geoirs
FRANCE

PHOTONIC SCIENCE LIMITED was formed over twenty years ago for the purpose of designing and developing scientific camera systems.

Photonic Science is a high technology manufacturer of scientific detector systems covering the range of visible to x-ray and neutron detection. The camera technology offered is wide ranging, from CCD, CMOS to image intensified systems.

The company has the background and expertise to develop cameras for specialist applications and has environmental facilities to test cameras in vacuum, or temperature cycle and vibrate to provide "shake and bake" shock testing. PSL produces cameras for working on vacuum equipment with flanges, to cameras that are environmentally sealed to work in vacuum. Some cameras have been used in zero gravity (ESA test flights) and are designed for use in space.

Imaging systems and cameras are designed to customer specific requirements, which can range extensively in environmental requirements or be designed to be cost effective for OEM users.

Cameras are designed to support a variety of CCDs and CMOS sensors, and these can vary from the latest developments in Electron Multiplying CCDs to large area sensors with a large number of pixels i.e. 4k x2.6k CCD. Developments in software and processing also allow seamless multi-headed camera systems where eight cameras can give high resolution images in real time. This image is over eight thousand pixels in the horizontal, with correction for lens distortion, geometry, and camera gain to provide a single interrogatable image.

Cameras are designed with 16 or 12-bit readout, some provide high resolution video, and they typically read out fast with multi-tap cameras doubling the readout speeds. FireWire , camera link, LVDS, and USB communication standards are available, making control of cameras from laptops possible and the streaming of data to memory much more flexible.

PSL also has the ability to bond single and multiple CCDs producing large input area x-ray cameras, fibre optically coupled intensified cameras, and fibre optically coupled electron imaging systems.

The company’s aims are to stay at the forefront of new technology, developing new products and expanding into new markets.

Photonic Science’s ability to design and build specialist systems and to undertake R&D projects has given the company’s personnel a wide range of experience in diverse fields, and the ability to re-apply this knowledge to other areas. The company retains specialists in Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and Electronics.