The Color CoolView EMCCD camera delivers high sensitivity thanks to secondary electron multiplication that brings the original photonic signal above the read out noise floor of the sensor down to less than one electron. A Bayer filter in front of the CCD combined with real time color image reconstruction eliminates the need of three separate RGB acquisitions.

The color cool view EMCCD camera is very well suited for low light video microscopy and chip readers as both techniques use multi fluorescent probes that need to be sensed altogether. The camera can be plugged onto a video recorder for quantifying cell motility / intracellular traffic. Or it can also be used in digital mode for acquiring fast color 3D stacks without the need of a filter wheel and multi passes.

Built in white balance ensures a reliable reproduction of colors even at low light levels. Unlike other frame transfer cameras, this camera does not suffer from frame shift smear, thanks to efficient shuttering capacity.

The Coolview TC1000 is ideal for imaging extremely weak photonic emission in real time such as with single molecule fluorescence imaging or confocal microscopy.

The EM gain can be boosted in excess of 2,000:1, approaching that of single stage image intensifiers. Gain calibration against temperature allows accurate gain control in an extremely reproducible manner.

The quantum efficiency of the sensor peaks at 65% in the visible region but allows imaging from UV up to NIR spectral range.

The frame transfer architecture combined with low noise electronics allows fast image acquisition > 100 fps using either binning and or region of interest on the CCD.

A special kinetic mode allows singles stripe images to be acquired very fast up to 1000 fps if necessary using full vertical binning.

Thanks to an interline vertical register next to each photo sensitive pixel, the FDI provides built in fast shuttering capability down to less than 1 microsecond. Two consecutive frames can be recorded with very short inter frame time making possible spray particle analysis.

Correlated double sampling combined with digital signal processing allows achieving read out noise down to 5 electrons at 12.5MHz. The camera clock speed can be turned to 25MHz by software, fast acquisition frame rates up to >100 fps can be achieved using binning and or sub area of interest.
Thanks to good cooling and native low dark current specifications, the camera allows up to many minutes on chip integration without being disturbed by dark current noise contribution.

FDI functions include full vertical binning for spectroscopic and line scan operation, (windowing) sub-area readout and extended dynamic range mode up to 16 bit digitization.

Dual tap 20 MHz low noise read out electronics allows fast read out shutterless operation at up to 3fps full resolution, and up to 15 fps with binning.

The interline transfer architecture enables fast built in shuttering capability for smear free very high resolution image acquisition.

A dual sensor configuration with 22 and 32 megapixel resolution are available whilst keeping the same acquisition frame rate as a standalone camera.

The camera features extremely good antiblooming suppression which will avoid any bleeding artifacts, up to >300 x its saturation level.

This makes the camera ideal for characterizing bright both bright / dimmed light emissions such as for LCD / plasma panel inspection, aerial imaging, 2D proteomics.

Extended dynamic range mode provides up to 16 bit digitization.