TDI Board Type Camera C10000

The C10000 TDI line scan camera is a new generation of Hamamatsu products designed for applications where high speed and superior image quality are required. TDI stands for Time Delay and Integration and is a breakthrough in high sensitivity imaging. It is based on the idea of increasing the integration time available to collect incident light by accumulating multiple exposures of the same (moving) object. Shift registers are used to transport the collected charge across multiple pixel rows (TDI stages) synchronized and transferred at the same rate as the scene.

The Hamamatsu C10000 is an ultra-sensitive camera for use in line scan applications that demand high performance under low light conditions. The camera has 2048 pixels spatial resolution with 128 TDI stages and bi-directional scanning operation. It supports scan rates up to 50 kHz. The back-thinned CCD sensor type offers orders of magnitudes better sensitivity with high quantum efficiency over a great spectral range from UV-NIR. Anti-blooming prevents localized overexposure from contaminating the information in adjacent pixels. The C10000 is a board type camera without housing designed to easily integrate into imaging instruments. Selectable 8 bit or 12 bit data is provided through the camera link interface.

The TDI line scan camera is ideal for a wide variety of applications including flat panel display and electronics manufacturing inspection, sorting and routing, high performance web inspection and other imaging applications where high speed and high sensitivity is required.