Live From Photonics West 2012: ATOM 1024 High-Resolution Uncooled IR Camera Demo
Chris Alicandro of Sofradir EC takes us on a tour of several different technologies, including the ATOM 1024 high-resolution uncooled IR camera. It incorporates a 1024 x 768 array that is suitable for military and COTS systems for applications such as extended detection range and distributed aperture.
Video Transcript
Chris Alicandro: Hi, I'm Chris Alicandro, the vice president of sales for Sofradir EC. We are based out of Fairfield, New Jersey. Welcome to our booth at Photonics West 2012. Formally known as Electrophysics, Sofradir EC is a manufacturer of thermal imaging and night vision components and subsystems. At our booth today, we have a demonstration of a few different technologies that we have.
Our primary business is both cooled and uncooled thermal imaging modules using both uncooled microbolometers technology and cooled mercury-cadmium-telluride technology. We also are… have products that use low light intensified ice squared technology. We call those products our astroscopes.
What we have on display here, on this side, is an uncooled thermal imaging module which is called the Atom 1024, which is a 1024 x 768 17 micron microbolometer. The camera system itself has better than 50 mK sensitivity. It operates at 30 frames per second and provides a 14 bit digital output.
On this side, we have a representation of some of our cooled products. We manufacture a variety of engines and subsystems that incorporate our parent company's, Sofradir's cooled mercury –cadmium-telluride detectors. This is an output of a 640 x 512 15 microns midwave mercury-cad-telluride base module.
We also have similar products that use shortwave, midwave, broadband midwave, longwave and very longwave technology as well. This is available both on an individual sensor basis as well as an OEM module. The mercury-cad-telluride has the benefit of having very broad spectrum responses, very high thermal sensitivity. Then the midwave, we're operating at very high operating temperatures as well.
The offering that we give to our customers is we can provide anything from a component to a subsystem to a camera module itself. Some of the new products that we have as well are uncooled modules such as this very small module called the Atom 384, which is 384 by 288 sensor module and which will be in production later this year. If you have any requirements requiring thermal imaging, both cooled or uncooled or night vision, please contact us. You can visit us at www.sofradir-ec.com.
Thank you.