World-class imaging technology in high-performance OCAM²k EMCCD camera

The very best in wave front-sensing technology
With a recent history in working with big astronomical projects in Europe, First Light's engineering team have combined their expertise to offer the OCAM 2K camera - currently the fastest, low-light camera of its type on the market.

Based in the Marseilles Astrophysical laboratory in France, and describing themselves as a "small, reactive company", First Light's engineers have access to two of the best photonics clusters producing the most current technical developments in the world, which they have translated into the design of the flagship OCAM 2k camera.

Why is it so good?
With applications in the aeronautical, space and life science imaging industries, the OCAM²k offers more speed, more pixels and additional infrared sensitivity options, all contained in a compact, robust package built for reliability.

With a speed above 2000 frames-per-second, OCAM²k is the fastest OCAM² to date, offering 33% more speed than its progenitor, the OCAM²-1500, and achieved by optimising and redesigning the electronics of its predecessor to achieve this astonishing speed without compromising the compelling, pre-existing characteristics of the OCAM 2 family. Readout noise is still just as low with values down to 0.1e-, Dark Signal is negligible, and latency has improved at 43µs between exposure and first pixel availability. And in the event that 2000 full-sized (240 x 240 pixels) images per second not be fast enough, an optional 2 x 2 binning mode providing 120 x 120 pixels at an even more neck-breaking 3700 images-per-second can be added.

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