Newton EMCCD and CCD Cameras

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The Newton CCD camera is ideally suited to high performance spectroscopic applications. The high resolution sensors deliver up to 95% QE. Combined with Andor Technology’s low noise electronics, it provides convenient multi-Megahertz readout and USB connectivity. The camera utilizes a 1024 x 255 array of 26μm² pixels with thermoelectric cooling down to -100°C resulting in negligible dark current. The system offers the best performance for a wide range of spectroscopic applications across VUV-NIR wavelengths.

Technical Specifications

• What does this specification mean?Active Pixels

  1024 x 255

  The smallest elements of a CCD detector grid.

• Pixel Size (µm)

  26

• Image Area

  26.7mm x 6.7mm

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

  500000

  The well depth of a single pixel on the ccd sensor

• Output Saturation (e^-, typical)

  1000000

• What does this specification mean?Max Spectra Per Sec

  273

  Based on a Horizontal Pixel Readout of 100KHz and a vertical pixel shift of 13μS. Vertical speeds are software selectable. All sensors are guaranteed to operate at 13μs vertical pixel shift and most can be clocked faster. At these faster speeds there may be some degradation of Charge Transfer Efficiency (C.T.E.). FVB is short for Full Vertical Binning (Binning is a process that allows charge from two or more pixels to be combined on the EMCCD-chip prior to readout).

• Read Noise (e^-, typical)

  4.0 @ 50kHz
  18.0 @ 3.0MHz

• What does this specification mean?Dark Current (e^-, typical)

  0.0005 @ -100°C
  BI = 0.001 @ -100°C

  A type of noise that occurs in light-sensitive detectors

• Max Full Frames Per Second

  10.1

Features and Benefits

• Multi-Megahertz Readout

  High acquisition rates achievable with low noise electronics

• Simple USB 2.0 Connection

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

• Min Operating Temp of -100˚C with TE Cooling

  Negligible dark current without the aggravation or safety concerns associated with LN2.

• Single Window Design

  Delivers maximum photon throughput.

• Cropped Sensor Mode

  Specialized readout mode for achieving sub-millisecond temporal resolution from EMCCD and CCD cameras. Intuitive Cropped Sensor definition for continuous rapid image or spectral acquisition.

• UltraVac™

  Critical for sustained vacuum integrity and to maintain unequalled cooling and QE performance, year after year.

Quantum Efficiency Curve