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High resolution line scan camera with 16k resolution
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In camera technology for industrial image processing, ever higher resolutions and speeds are required due to ever smaller structure sizes. The finest details have to be checked while the number of cycles increases. Line scan cameras must be able to keep up with this. With the "Eliixa +" line camera from e2v, not only speed problems can be solved.
The imaging ratios in line camera applications are usually chosenthat the pixel resolution is bothalong the line as well as in the transport directionis equal to. If you increase the horizontalResolution, is also the resolutionin the transport direction speak theIncrease line rate. This connectionprevents in some applicationsthe use of the highest resolutionLine cameras. So in somefast applications, for example, three 4k line scan cameraswith up to 72 kHz installed, as a12k line scan camera with maximum 25 kHz onlyrunning. The multi-camera solution is soby about factor 3 faster than the solutionwith only one line camera. For highResolutions of 8k, 12k and more pixels / line is thus a significant increase ofLine rate required to such applicationsto implement with just one camera.
With the rising speedsinevitably stands less and lessTime for the exposure available. Theis the photosensitivity of the sensormust also be increased. One solution to the problems described is the new "Eliixa +" line scan generation from e2v with multi-line CMOS architecture.
The newly developed CMOS sensor has16.384 pixels with a maximumLine rate of up to 100 kHz read outbecome. With 5 μm pixel size is theSensor also easy to handle in terms of optics.The MTF (Modulation Transfer Function)is with existing todayOptics high and will not go througha too small pixel size restricted.The manufacturer reaches in its own production processa good planarity of the sensor,so a sharp picture about theentire sensor length of 82 mm ensuredat a hunt.
The structure of the multi-line CMOS sensorensures a wide dynamic rangefrom up to 73 dB: before the analog-to-digital conversion is through theDesign of the photodiode achieved a high charge conversion factor. The amplifiersare right next to the active pixelsarranged. This leads to a high quantum efficiency(QE) of up to 72% on 550nm. The Correlated Double Sampling(CDS) ensures homogeneous, low-noiseImages.
The sensor's special multi-line architecture consists of four active lines each16k pixels that are next to each other without spacinglie. Two adjacent eachLines form a line pair,the noise-free the analog voltagesadded. The two intensity values, theafter the AD conversion of each row pairare present then digitally inFPGA sums up. This combined processthe addition of analog voltageand digital brightness valuesincreases the sensitivity of the sensorby factor 4. This sensor is with his450 LSB / (nJ / cm2)sensitive enoughalso in practice without expensiveSpecial lighting the highestSpeed to drive.
Because the four sensor lines are right next to each otherlie, the picture sharpness remains - inUnlike line scan cameras with more linesor with spaces between the lines- even with the oblique view of up to45 ° full on the object. Due to the high popularity of Camera Link, there is the line scan camera with "Camera Link Full Interface". The full speed is achieved with "Coax" press.