Newton EMCCD and CCD Cameras

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The Newton camera is ideally suited to high performance spectroscopic applications. The high resolution spectroscopic sensor combined with Andor Technology’s low noise electronics, delivers up to 95% QE with both multi-Megahertz readout and USB connectivity. The dual output amplifier allow software selection of either high sensitivity or high capacity modes of operation so that you can optimize the sensitivity and dynamic range of capacity the camera to suit the operating conditions encountered. The camera utilizes a 2048 x 512 array of 13.5μm² pixels with thermoelectric cooling down to -100°C resulting in negligible dark current.

Technical Specifications

• What does this specification mean?Active Pixels

  2048 x 512

  The smallest elements of a CCD detector grid.

• Pixel Size (µm)

  13.5

• Image Area

  27.6mm x 6.9mm

• Output Saturation (e^-, typical)

  High Sensitivity Mode: 150000
  High Capacity Mode: 600000

• What does this specification mean?Max Spectra Per Sec

  122

  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).

• Max Full Frames Per Second

  2.2

• Read Noise (e^-, typical)

  2.5 @ 50kHz
  11 @ 3.0MHz

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

  0.00007 @ -100°C
  BI = 0.0009 @ -100°C

  A type of noise that occurs in light-sensitive detectors

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.

• UltraVac™

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

• 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.

• Dual Output Amplifiers

  Software selectable output for either high sensitivity mode (low noise) or high capacity mode

Quantum Efficiency Curve