16-Frame Ultra-High Speed Camera

Specialised Imaging has delivered a SIM-16, the worlds first 16 channel camera capable of capturing images at 200,000,000 frames per second, to the UKs EPSRC Engineering Instrument Pool run by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Didcot, Oxfordshire. Other leading UK research groups are now lining up to use the SIM-16 to for applications including plasma physics and effects of cavitation in turbines. The system is able to eliminate effects such as parallax and shading, and the high spatial resolution (> 50 lp/mm) is the same frame to frame and in both axes. An optical port for secondary recording instrumentation has been incorporated into the primary beamsplitter, overcoming simultaneous high-speed image capture problems. The SIM optical port framing camera also en­ables direct interfacing with high-speed video, a streak camera or a time resolved spectrometer.