The NIRvana family of products have led to advances in many applications including astronomy, life sciences, and semiconductor fabrication. Investment in nanotechnology, including quantum dots and carbon nanotubes, is driving the requirement for user-friendly, high-performance cameras. The NIRvanna SWIR portfolio is suited for life science, in-vivo imaging and the associated requirements for higher performance NIR-II probes ideal for both end-user and OEM integration.
Key Specs
- Dark current
- Read Noise
- Frame Rate
- <40 e⁻
- <75 e⁻
- 100 fps
SWIR for Science
Key Features
The NIRvana® 640 SWIR camera has the sensitivity to match your challenging samples. With 85% QE and low noise over 10+ minute exposure times, the NIRvana® 640 will let you see the unseen. The NIRvana® 640 will let you see the unseen and has the following key features:
- 900 – 1700 nm SWIR / NIR-II
- Ultra-low dark current (<40e)
- Deep cooling without liquid nitrogen
- Optimised for long exposures
Powerful Infrared Sensitivity For Faint Samples
The NIRvana® 640 offers incredible sensitivity with greater than >85% Quantum Efficiency between 950 nm and 1500 nm, ensuring you collect every photon you can.
The biggest barrier to low light SWIR imaging is dark current. The NIRvana® 640 offers incredible low dark current – only 40e-/p/s, enabling longer exposures for faint samples.
Deep Cooling That Lasts
Weak signals require a long exposure time to integrate. The primary challenge to low light imaging for SWIR cameras is exposure-time-dependent dark current noise. This can be reduced with camera cooling. However, some cameras on the market can only sustain their advertised cooling temperatures for a few minutes.
Though our industry-leading cooling and hermetic seal vacuum technology, the NIRvana® 640 can sustain its -85C sensor temperature over many hours. Combined with our lifetime guaranteed, zero maintenance vacuum, our cooling technology provides the reliability to keep your experiments running.
Minimize Scene Noise
SWIR photons are everywhere. A significant source of unwanted noise in SWIR imaging is infrared photons from around the sample. The NIRvana® 640 features a proprietary cold shield, which blocks photons you don’t want, improving image quality.
The new InGaAs focal plane array detector has allowed our research group to easily extend our imaging spectroscopy techniques into the near-infrared regime. Combining a NIRvana with an eXcelon ProEM camera has enabled us to rapidly acquire 2D images from 400nm-1700nm on the same SP2300i spectrograph. Unlike other InGaAs 2D detectors we tested, the TE cooling and background subtraction features have allowed us to easily acquire long exposures to resolve photoluminescence from very dilute emitter samples.
Dr. Rashid Zia, School of Engineering, Brown University, USA
Specifications
Highlighted
- Resolution
- 640 x 512
- Megapixels
- 0.3
- Max Frame Rate Standard
- 110 fps
- Pixel Size
- 20 µm
- Sensor Diagonal
- 16.4 mm
- Lens Mount
- C-mount, Spec mount
- Sensor Type
- 2D InGaAs FPA
- Shutter type
- Global Shutter
- Sensor Model
- 2D InGaAs FPA
- Digitization Bit depth
- 16-bit
- Data Interface
- GigE
- Spectrum
- SWIR
- Aperture
- f/1.5
- Synchronization
- Expose, Reading Out, Shutter Open, Waiting for Trigger
Features
- Exposure Range
- ≤ 2µs to 10 minutes
- Gain Control
- High Gain
High Capacity
- Triggering Modes
- Start on Single Trigger, Readout per Trigger, Expose During Trigger Pulse
Performance
- Conversion Gain
- High Gain: 1 e⁻/count
High Capacity: 14 e⁻/count
- Dark Current
- 40 e⁻/p/s (@ -85°C)
- Dark Noise
- 40 e⁻/pix/sec
- Dynamic Range
- 8000 : 1
- Full Well Capacity (Qsat)
- 600 ke⁻
- QE (Mono)
- 85%
- Read Noise
- <75 e⁻
- Sensor Material
- InGaAs
Physical
- Angular FOV
- 20°
- Cooling
- TE
- Dimensions WxHxL
- 147.3 x 147.3 x 188 mm
- Field of View
- 12.8 x 10.24 mm
- Mass
- 4.3 kg
- Mounting
- C-mount, Spec mount
- Operating Temp (Range)
- 0°C to 30°C
Recommended System Configuration
- Accessories (Included)
- Power supply, GigE cable, Trigger cable
- OS
- Windows 10 (64 bit), Linux
- Port
- GigE
Compliance & Certifications
- Certification
- CE
- Warranty
- 1 year, Lifetime Vacuum Warranty
Media gallery
Resources & Support
Application Note
Deep-Cooled InGaAs FPA Camera Enables High-Speed, High-Resolution In Vivo Imaging of SWIR-Emitting Quantum Dots
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Application Note
In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging in the NIR-II Spectral Region for Early Cancer Detection
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