Multi-channel concept for PCO’s intensified camera range

Using sophisticated beam splitter optics, multiple intensified pco.dicam C1 channels can be coupled in a compact housing to a single optical input, thus multiplying the speed, flexibility, and time resolution capabilities of a single pco.dicam C1. Doing so, completely new fields of application open up widely. Ultra-fast processes evolving on a time scale of a few ns out of reach even for the fastest CMOS high-speed cameras at smallest resolution can now be clearly resolved in space and time. The outstanding gating abilities, along with the precisely adjustable light amplification crucial to capture such ultra-fast processes, are unique features of intensified multiple channel camera systems.

The pco.dicam C4 equally distributes the light of a single optical input to 4 image intensifiers with 18 mm diameter and 2.5 ns shortest gating. In addition, the pco.dicam C8 has been developed as a consistent and logical next step to increase the image sequence length of the field proven pco.dicam C4 camera system, distributing the light of a single optical input to 8 image intensifiers. Each image intensifier is read out by a dedicated tandem lens coupled 4.2 MPixel sCMOS sensor with 16 bit dynamic. 4 or 8 images of 2.5 ns exposure time with 0 ns interframing time correspond to a burst rate of 400,000,000 fps. This image sequence can be repeated every 7 ms.

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