Description
Developing the pco.dicam C8 camera system was the logical next step to increase the image sequence length of the field-proven pco.dicam C4.
The light of a single optical input is equally distributed to 8 image intensifiers, each with 25 mm diameter and 4 ns shortest gating. With zero ns interframing time, this corresponds to a burst rate of 250,000,000 fps. All optical elements deployed for the beam splitting and guidance are adopted from the very successful pco.dicam C4 design.
Each image intensifier is read out by a dedicated tandem lens coupled 4.2 MPixel sCMOS sensor with 16 bit dynamic. A maximum of 848 fps @ full 4.2 MPixel resolution is available. This equals 6.8 GByte/s of sustained image data rate. To transmit this huge data rate in real time, the pco.dicam C8 uses 8 optical CLHS ports (80G fiber).
Key Features:
- 8-channel intensified sCMOS camera
- exposure times down to 4 ns
- 8 images in 32 ns
- 16 images in 620 ns
- 16 bit dynamic range
- optical coupling via ultra-speed tandem lenses
- enhanced extinction ratio gating
- 25 or 18 mm image intensifier
- 50 ns trigger to exposure start delay
- up to 6.8 GByte/s with 8 x 10G fiber optic data interface (Camera Link HS)
| Unit | pro.dicam C8 | pro.dicam C8 LT | pro.dicam C8 UHS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution (hor x vert) | pixel | 2048 x 2048 | 1504 x 1504 | 1504 x 1504 |
| Pixel size | µm | 6.5 µm x 6.5 µm | 6.5 µm x 6.5 µm | 6.5 µm x 6.5 µm |
| Frame rate at max resolution | fps | 848 fps | 120 | 1155 |
| Spectral range | nm | 300 to 1000 | 300 to 1000 | 300 to 1000 |
| Image intensifier diameter | mm | 25 (18 on request) | 18 | 18 |
| Exposure time | s | Down to 4ns | Down to 51ns | Down to 2.5ns |
