Luca^EM EMCCD Camera

Luca (R)

The Luca^EM R DL-604 is the latest Electron Multiplying CCD innovation, a highly cost-effective yet powerful camera making EMCCD available to every laboratory. Luca^EM R represents a new performance standard in ‘workhorse’ cameras. Operate EM gain off for conventional CCD operation under brighter conditions – turn on the EM gain when the photons become scarce! Luca^EM R utilizes a monochrome MegaPixel frame transfer EMCCD sensor, providing single photon detection sensitivity and unrestrained QE (65% max), in a TE cooled, USB 2.0 camera platform. Andor’s exclusive RealGain™ EM gain control offers enhanced user-friendliness and quantitative reproducibility, setting a new precedent in day-to-day EMCCD use. Andor’s well established Baseline Clamp feature facilitates unprecedented quantitative EMCCD performance. The Megapixel EMCCD sensor with 8 x 8μm pixel size is ideally suited to fluorescence microscopy, particularly of living cells.

Technical Specifications

• What does this specification mean?Active Pixels

  1004(h) x 1002(v)

  The smallest elements of a CCD detector grid.

• Pixel Size (µm)

  8

• Image Area

  8mm x 8mm

• What does this specification mean? Act. Area Pixel Well Depth (e^-, typical)

  30000

  The well depth of a single pixel on the ccd sensor

• Gain Reg. Pix. Well Depth (e^-, typical)

  80000

• Max Readout Rate

  13.5MHZ

• What does this specification mean? Frame Rate (fps)

  12.4

  Frame rate, or frame frequency, is the measurement of how quickly an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames

• Read Noise (e^-, typical)

  <1 to 18 @ 13.5MHz

Features and Benefits

• EMCCD Technology

  Even single photon signals are amplified above the noise floor. Full QE of CCD chip is harnessed (no intensifier).

• Megapixel Sensor

  High resolution over a large field of view.

• RealGain™

  Absolute EMCCD gain selectable directly from a linear and quantitative scale.

• Small Pixel Size

  8 x 8μm pixels for fine resolution in microscopy.

• Application Flexibility

  Operate ‘gain off’ for conventional CCD operation under brighter conditions – apply EM gain when the photons become scarce!

• Baseline Clamp

  Essential for quantitative accuracy of dynamic processes.

• Rapid Frame Rates

  Follow dynamic low-light processes at rapid frame rates. Full sub-array and binning flexibility.

• Simple USB 2.0 Connection

  USB 2.0 connection direct from back of the camera – no controller box needed!

• Visual Acquisition

  Follow events in real time during data acquisition.

• Auto Dynamic Range

  Automatically tunes to enable maximum dynamic range.

• Fan Control

  Turn off fan for zero vibration during acquisition periods of up to several minutes! Ideal for combined optical/AFM set-ups.

• Extremely Compact

  The most compact scientific digital EMCCD on the market. ‘Extreme-compact’ OEM version available.

• Multiple Camera

  Operate multiple low-cost Luca^EM cameras, synchronized in parallel.

• 3^rd Party Performance Excellence

  Andor-exclusive SDK and firmware technology delivering optimal speed performance and synchronisation within complex acquisition protocols – ideal for multi-dimensional microscopy software control.

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