Low Light Imaging Cameras

Facilitated by a fundamental redesign, the NEW iXon Ultra platform takes the popular back-illuminated 512 x 512 frame transfer sensor and overclocks readout to 17 MHz, pushing speed performance to an outstanding 56 fps (full frame), whilst maintaining quantitative stability throughout. The status of ‘Ultimate Sensitivity’ is also preserved in this model, offering thermoelectric cooling down to -100°C and industry-lowest clock induced charge noise. Additional unique features of the iXon Ultra include USB connectivity and direct raw data access for on the fly processing. EMCCD and conventional CCD readout modes provide heightened application flexibility, with a new ‘low and slow’ noise performance in CCD mode. The significant speed boost offered in the iXon Ultra 897 facilitates a new level of temporal resolution to be attained, ideal for speed challenged low-light applications such as super-resolution microscopy, single molecule tracking, ion signalling, cell motility, single photon counting, lucky astronomy and adaptive optics. The extremely low noise of the iXon 897 coupled with the new overclocked speed performance will place this model at the forefront when it comes to upgrading the high end imaging performance of your laboratory.

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Andor iXon3
iXon 885

Andor’s expertise in scientific performance optimization has been harnessed once again. Clara has been designed to deliver the highest sensitivity performance achievable from an interline CCD camera

Based around the popular ICX285 sensor from Sony®, the Clara interline CCD is ideally suited to high-resolution cell microscopy and OEM applications. Andor’s proven UltraVac™ process, alongside close attention to thermal management, has resulted in deep air cooling to -55°C for elimination of darkcurrent, complementing a unique read noise of 2.4e- @ 1 MHz.

More dynamic events can be followed with outstanding quantitative stability via low noise 10 or 20 MHz readout modes, the data channeled through a trouble free USB 2.0 interface. Andor’s iCam technology enables market-leading acquisition efficiency through live cell microscopy softwares. The compact, robust design and accessible SDK, renders Clara interline CCD camera ideally suited to OEM integration.

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Clara

Luca-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^TM EM gain control offers enhanced user-friendliness and quantitative reproducibility, setting a new precedent in day-to-day EMCCD use. The megapixel EMCCD sensor with 8×8µm pixel size is ideally suited to high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, particularly of photo-sensitive living cells. The extended red QE response of Luca-R is optimally matched to popular red-emitting fluorophores.

Andor’s Luca family represents the latest Electron Multiplying CCD innovation, a highly cost-effective yet powerful digital microscope camera making EMCCD available to every laboratory. Luca 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.

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Luca-R
Luca-R-2

Zyla sCMOS scientific camera – In a -40°C vacuum cooled platform, with 1 e- read noise, Rolling and Snapshot exposure, and loaded with FPGA intelligence, Andor’s Neo sCMOS camera is designed exclusively to drive optimal performance from this exciting and innovative new technology development.

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sCMOS