Leuven, Belgium, 06 December 2022 — Wildcat+ 640 TE0 (TECless) and WL (Windowless) have been announced today as the newly released members of the Wildcat+ short-wave infrared (SWIR) camera family from Xenics.
Xenics is Europe’s leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared sensors, cameras and customized imaging solutions for the short-wave infrared (SWIR) and the LWIR realm.
Wildcat+ 640 TE0 200: the affordable high sensitivity SWIR camera
High sensitivity is the holy grail for a lot of applications. However, these types of cameras are usually very expensive. With the TE0 version, Xenics proposes an affordable solution with a TECless version running at 200 Hz and maintaining the ultimate electro-optical performance of Wildcat+ 640.
Wildcat+ 640 WL 200: the windowless option
To complete the Wildcat+ 640 offer, Xenics now also proposes a “windowless” version (sensor package without cover glass): this helps avoiding unwanted reflections and interference fringes as requested for laser measurements (typically Laser Beam Profiling). This configuration is also beneficial for wave-front sensing as it suppresses any uncontrolled optical distortions due to the window of the sensor. Finally, as this camera is also TECless, it results in a price optimised solution similar to the Wildcat+ 640 TE0.
Proud members of the Wildcat+ 640 family
Raf Vandersmissen, Product Line Manager for SWIR at Xenics, explains, “As these two versions are based on the Wildcat+ 640 configuration they both benefit from the same advantages”.
The same advantages are:
- Low readout noise (45 e-) combined with a large pixel (20 µm pitch) resulting in a very high normalized sensitivity (8.89, i.e., ratio of pixel area versus noise) which allows customers to detect very small signals
- High dynamic range up to 68.8 dB
- Region of interest for increasing the framerate
- Possibility to integrate an optical filter
- 2 trigger-in and 2 trigger-out for a maximum of flexibility in complex systems integration
- GenICam compliant SDK for straightforward integration
Dedicated to industrial applications, these cameras are proposed with CameraLinkTM or a plug-and-play USB3 Vision interface.
Thanks to these two new versions, the Wildcat+ 640 family is now complete allowing Xenics to offer to customers the best SWIR solution for machine vision and process monitoring.