White Papers

Carbon nanotube applications and luminescence-based imaging with SWIR cameras

18 July 2018

Examples of how deeply cooled scientific SWIR InGaAs cameras are being used as enabling technologies for luminescence-based imaging of nanotubes

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Life sciences, Medical, SWIR, Infrared, Graphene

Going polarised - Polarisation adds a new perspective to the imaging industry

Lucid Vision Labs

13 July 2018

Lucid Vision Labs provides a deeper insight into how polarising light works

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Polarisation

JAI white paper: How does prism technology help to achieve superior colour image quality?

JAI

21 June 2018

This white paper outlines the advantages of prism-based 3-CMOS R-G-B area scan camera technology compared to single sensor Bayer mosaic cameras for colour applications in machine vision and medical/microscopy imaging.

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Colour imaging, Medical, Life sciences

Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)

Edmund Optics

12 June 2018

The Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) curve is an information-dense metric that reflects how a lens reproduces contrast as spatial frequency (resolution) varies.

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Lenses

Beyond the Specifications: Comparing the Next Generation Interfaces

Flir Systems

29 March 2018

This article provides an overview and comparison of the next generation of the Ethernet, USB, Camera Link, and CoaXpress standards, and introduces Thunderbolt3 as an interface to watch.

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Interfaces, Standards