Used Lab Equipment

The highly innovative iXon Ultra 888 megapixel, back-illuminated EMCCD camera offers single photon sensitivity across a large field of view, at 26 fps. Building on a rich history of first to market innovation, the ‘supercharged’ iXon Ultra 888, represents a massive performance boost for the largest available EMCCD sensor, as well as the first USB 3.0 enabled EMCCD camera.

Specifications:

• Active pixels (H x V): 1024 x 1024
• Pixel size (W x H; μm ): 13 x 13
• Image area (mm): 13.3 x 13.3
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth (e-): 80,000
• Max Readout Rate (MHz): 30
• Frame rates (fps): 26 (full frame) - 9690
• Read noise (e-): <1 with EM gain
• QE Max: >95%
• Sensor QE options: UVB: Back Illuminated, standard AR with additional lumogen coating
  

The iXon Ultra 897 platform takes the popular back-illuminated 512 x 512 frame transfer sensor and overclocks readout to 17 MHz, pushing speed performance to an outstanding 56 fps (full frame), whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and quantitative stability throughout. New Optically Centred Crop Mode unlocks unparalleled frame rate performance from centrally located ROIs, ideal for the particular speed and sensitivity requirements of super-resolution microscopy.

Specifications: 

• Active pixels (H x V): 512 x 512
• Pixel size (W x H; μm ): 16 x 16
• Image area (mm): 8.2 x 8.2
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth (e-): 180,000
• Max Readout Rate (MHz): 17
• Frame rates (fps): 56 (full frame) - 11,074
• Read noise (e-): <1 with EM gain
• QE Max: >95%
• Sensor QE options: EXF: Back illuminated, dual AR coated with fringe suppression
  
  

Andor’s new iXon Life EMCCD (Electron Multiplying CCD) platform is available exclusively for fluorescence microscopy applications and is engineered to deliver single photon sensitivity with absolutely unparalleled price/performance. The ideal detector to drive superlative performance from confocal spinning disk technology. Whilst affording superb confocality and low rates of phototoxicity, spinning disk experiments are inherently photon starved, by virtue of the photon rejection implicit to optical sectioning. The superior sensitivity of the iXon Life detector brings these low light images to life.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back Illuminated, standard AR coated
• Active pixels (H x V): 1024 x 1024
• Pixel Size (H x V: µm): 13 x 13
• Image Area: 13.3 x 13.3 mm with 100% Fill Factor
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth (e-): 80,000 180,000
• Pixel Readout Rate
• Minimum Temperature, air cooled, ambient 20°C: 10 MHz -70ºC, 30 MHz•3 -55ºC
• Chiller Liquid Cooling, coolant @ 10°C, >0.75l/min: 10 MHz -80ºC, 30 MHz•3 -65ºC
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• System Window Type: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Visible-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 3.0•12
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5:
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00025
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -80°C: 0.005
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 80,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•6: 730,000 e-
• Read noise (e-) •7: <1
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.6 to 4.33 µs (user selectable)
• Timestamp accuracy: 10 ns

Andor’s new iXon Life EMCCD (Electron Multiplying CCD) platform is available exclusively for fluorescence microscopy applications and is engineered to deliver single photon sensitivity with absolutely unparalleled price/performance. The ideal detector to drive superlative performance from confocal spinning disk technology. Whilst affording superb confocality and low rates of phototoxicity, spinning disk experiments are inherently photon starved, by virtue of the photon rejection implicit to optical sectioning. The superior sensitivity of the iXon Life detector brings these low light images to life.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back Illuminated, standard AR coated
• Active pixels (H x V): 512 x 512
• Pixel Size (H x V: µm): 16 x 16 μm
• Image Area: 8.2 x 8.2 mm with 100% Fill Factor
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth (e-): 80,000 180,000
• Pixel Readout Rate
• Minimum Temperature, air cooled, ambient 20°C: 10 MHz -70ºC, 17 MHz•3 -70ºC
• Chiller Liquid Cooling, coolant @ 10°C, >0.75l/min: 10 MHz -80ºC, 17 MHz•3 -80ºC
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• System Window Type: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Visible-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 2.0
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5:
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00030
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -80°C: 0.0018
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 180,000 e
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•6: 800, 000 e
• Read noise (e-) •7: <1
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.3 to 3.3 µs (user selectable)
• Timestamp accuracy: 10 ns

The highly innovative, megapixel, camera offers single photon sensitivity across a large field of view, at 26 fps. Building on a rich history of first to market innovation, the ‘supercharged’ iXon Ultra 888, represents a massive performance boost for the largest available EMCCD sensor, as well as the first USB 3.0 enabled EMCCD camera. The iXon Ultra 888 has been fundamentally re-engineered to facilitate a 3x acceleration of the pixel readout speed to an unprecedented 30 MHz, whilst maintaining quantitative stability, propelling the full frame performance to video rate. Designed to be the most flexible yet easy to use EMCCD on the market, optimizable for a wide variety of application requirements in a single click via the OptAcquire™ feature. Crucially, the iXon brand carries an outstanding reputation within the industry for quality and reliability, brandishing an unparalleled track record of minimal field failures.

Specifications:

• Sensor QE: Back-illuminated, standard AR coated with fringe suppression
• Active Pixels: 1024 x 1024
• Pixel Size: 13 x 13 μm
• Image Area: 13.3 x 13.3 mm with 100% Fill Factor
• Pixel Readout Rate:
• Minimum Temperature, air cooled, ambient 20°C: 10 MHz -80ºC, 30 MHz•3 -60ºC
• Chiller Liquid Cooling, coolant @ 10°C, >0.75l/min: 10 MHz -95ºC, 30 MHz•3 -75ºC
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• System Window Type:
• #BV and BVF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Visible-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• UVB, #EX, EXF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Vacuum Ultraviolet-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 3.0•12
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data: Access Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5:
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00025
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ max cooling: 0.00011
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.005
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 80,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 730,000 e-
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.6 to 4.33 µs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The highly innovative, megapixel, camera offers single photon sensitivity across a large field of view, at 26 fps. Building on a rich history of first to market innovation, the ‘supercharged’ iXon Ultra 888, represents a massive performance boost for the largest available EMCCD sensor, as well as the first USB 3.0 enabled EMCCD camera. The iXon Ultra 888 has been fundamentally re-engineered to facilitate a 3x acceleration of the pixel readout speed to an unprecedented 30 MHz, whilst maintaining quantitative stability, propelling the full frame performance to video rate. Designed to be the most flexible yet easy to use EMCCD on the market, optimizable for a wide variety of application requirements in a single click via the OptAcquire™ feature. Crucially, the iXon brand carries an outstanding reputation within the industry for quality and reliability, brandishing an unparalleled track record of minimal field failures.

Specifications:

• Sensor QE: Back-illuminated, EX2 dual AR coated
• Active Pixels: 1024 x 1024
• Pixel Size: 13 x 13 μm
• Image Area: 13.3 x 13.3 mm with 100% Fill Factor
• Pixel Readout Rate
• Minimum Temperature, air cooled, ambient 20°C: 10 MHz -80ºC, 30 MHz•3 -60ºC
• Chiller Liquid Cooling, coolant @ 10°C, >0.75l/min: 10 MHz -95ºC, 30 MHz•3 -75ºC
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• System Window Type:
• #BV and BVF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Visible-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• UVB, #EX, EXF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Vacuum Ultraviolet-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 3.0•12
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data: Access Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5:
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00025
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ max cooling: 0.00011
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.005
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 80,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 730,000 e-
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.6 to 4.33 µs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The highly innovative, megapixel, camera offers single photon sensitivity across a large field of view, at 26 fps. Building on a rich history of first to market innovation, the ‘supercharged’ iXon Ultra 888, represents a massive performance boost for the largest available EMCCD sensor, as well as the first USB 3.0 enabled EMCCD camera. The iXon Ultra 888 has been fundamentally re-engineered to facilitate a 3x acceleration of the pixel readout speed to an unprecedented 30 MHz, whilst maintaining quantitative stability, propelling the full frame performance to video rate. Designed to be the most flexible yet easy to use EMCCD on the market, optimizable for a wide variety of application requirements in a single click via the OptAcquire™ feature. Crucially, the iXon brand carries an outstanding reputation within the industry for quality and reliability, brandishing an unparalleled track record of minimal field failures.

Specifications:

• Sensor QE: Back-illuminated, EX2 dual AR coated with fringe suppression
• Active Pixels: 1024 x 1024
• Pixel Size: 13 x 13 μm
• Image Area: 13.3 x 13.3 mm with 100% Fill Factor
• Pixel Readout Rate:
• Minimum Temperature, air cooled, ambient 20°C: 10 MHz -80ºC, 30 MHz•3 -60ºC
• Chiller Liquid Cooling, coolant @ 10°C, >0.75l/min: 10 MHz -95ºC, 30 MHz•3 -75ºC
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• System Window Type:
• #BV and BVF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Visible-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• UVB, #EX, EXF: UV-grade fused silica, Broadband Vacuum Ultraviolet-Near Infrared, 0.5 degree wedge
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 3.0•12
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data: Access Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5:
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00025
• Dark Current (e- /pixel/sec) @ max cooling: 0.00011
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.005
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 80,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 730,000 e-
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.6 to 4.33 µs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The iXon Ultra 897 platform overclocks readout to 17 MHz whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and quantitative stability throughout. New Optically Centred Crop Mode unlocks unparalleled frame rate performance from centrally located ROIs, ideal for the particular speed and sensitivity requirements of super-resolution microscopy. The iXon Ultra maintains all the advanced performance attributes that have defined the industry-leading iXon range, such as deep vacuum cooling to -100°C,, extremely low spurious noise, and Andor’s patented EM gain re-calibration technology (EMCA™). Count Convert functionality allows real time data acquisition in units of electrons or incident photons and OptAcquire facilitates one-click optimization of this versatile camera to a variety of application conditions.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back Illuminated, standard AR coated
• Active Pixels: 512 x 512
• Pixel Size:  16 x 16 μm
• Image Area: 8.2 x 8.2 mm with 100% fill factor
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 2.0
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data Access: Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00030
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ Max Cooling: 0.00015
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.0018
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 180,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 800,000 e-
• Linear Absolute Electron Multiplier Gain: 1 - 1000 times via RealGain™ (calibration stable at all cooling temperatures)
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.3 to 3.33 μs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The iXon Ultra 897 platform overclocks readout to 17 MHz whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and quantitative stability throughout. New Optically Centred Crop Mode unlocks unparalleled frame rate performance from centrally located ROIs, ideal for the particular speed and sensitivity requirements of super-resolution microscopy. The iXon Ultra maintains all the advanced performance attributes that have defined the industry-leading iXon range, such as deep vacuum cooling to -100°C,, extremely low spurious noise, and Andor’s patented EM gain re-calibration technology (EMCA™). Count Convert functionality allows real time data acquisition in units of electrons or incident photons and OptAcquire facilitates one-click optimization of this versatile camera to a variety of application conditions.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back Illuminated, standard AR coated with fringe suppression
• Active Pixels: 512 x 512
• Pixel Size:  16 x 16 μm
• Image Area: 8.2 x 8.2 mm with 100% fill factor
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 2.0
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data Access: Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00030
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ Max Cooling: 0.00015
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.0018
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 180,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 800,000 e-
• Linear Absolute Electron Multiplier Gain: 1 - 1000 times via RealGain™ (calibration stable at all cooling temperatures)
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.3 to 3.33 μs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The iXon Ultra 897 platform overclocks readout to 17 MHz whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and quantitative stability throughout. New Optically Centred Crop Mode unlocks unparalleled frame rate performance from centrally located ROIs, ideal for the particular speed and sensitivity requirements of super-resolution microscopy. The iXon Ultra maintains all the advanced performance attributes that have defined the industry-leading iXon range, such as deep vacuum cooling to -100°C,, extremely low spurious noise, and Andor’s patented EM gain re-calibration technology (EMCA™). Count Convert functionality allows real time data acquisition in units of electrons or incident photons and OptAcquire facilitates one-click optimization of this versatile camera to a variety of application conditions.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back-illuminated, EX2 dual AR coated
• Active Pixels: 512 x 512
• Pixel Size:  16 x 16 μm
• Image Area: 8.2 x 8.2 mm with 100% fill factor
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 2.0
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data Access: Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00030
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ Max Cooling: 0.00015
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.0018
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 180,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 800,000 e-
• Linear Absolute Electron Multiplier Gain: 1 - 1000 times via RealGain™ (calibration stable at all cooling temperatures)
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.3 to 3.33 μs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

The iXon Ultra 897 platform overclocks readout to 17 MHz whilst maintaining single photon sensitivity and quantitative stability throughout. New Optically Centred Crop Mode unlocks unparalleled frame rate performance from centrally located ROIs, ideal for the particular speed and sensitivity requirements of super-resolution microscopy. The iXon Ultra maintains all the advanced performance attributes that have defined the industry-leading iXon range, such as deep vacuum cooling to -100°C,, extremely low spurious noise, and Andor’s patented EM gain re-calibration technology (EMCA™). Count Convert functionality allows real time data acquisition in units of electrons or incident photons and OptAcquire facilitates one-click optimization of this versatile camera to a variety of application conditions.

Specifications:

• Sensor Type: Back Illuminated, standard AR with additional lumogen coating
• Active Pixels: 512 x 512
• Pixel Size:  16 x 16 μm
• Image Area: 8.2 x 8.2 mm with 100% fill factor
• Thermostatic Precision: ± 0.01°C
• Triggering: Internal, External, External Start, External Exposure, Software Trigger
• Digitization: 16-bit (at all speeds)
• PC Interface: USB 2.0
• Lens Mount: C-mount
• Direct Data Access: Camera Link 3-tap output
• Dark Current and Background Events•4,5
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ -80°C: 0.00030
• Dark Current (e-/pixel/sec) @ Max Cooling: 0.00015
• Spurious Background (events/pix) @ 1000x gain / -85°C: 0.0018
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 180,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth•76: 800,000 e-
• Linear Absolute Electron Multiplier Gain: 1 - 1000 times via RealGain™ (calibration stable at all cooling temperatures)
• Linearity•8: Better than 99.9%
• Vertical Clock Speed: 0.3 to 3.33 μs (user selectable)
• Timestamp Accuracy: 10 ns

Andor’s iXon3 860 back-illuminated EMCCD is designed for very rapid imaging of low light events. The iXon3 860 benefits from an advanced set of user–requested features, including OptAcquire, Count Convert, Spurious Noise Filters & Signal Averaging. RealGain provides quantitative EM gain calibration. Sub-millisecond biology is readily accessible through use of sub-array selection, pixel binning and Cropped Sensor Mode pushes frame rates to new extremes. The speed and sensitivity of the iXon3 860 also renders it ideal for adaptive optics.

Specifications:

• Active Pixels: 128 x 128
• Pixel Size: 24 x 24 um
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth: 160,000 e-
• Gain Register Pixel Well Depth: 800,000 e-
• Maximum Readout Rate: 10 MHz
• Frame Rate: 513 – 14,025 fps
• Read Noise: < 1e- with EM gain
• Maximum Cooling: -100°C

Andor’s iXon3 860 back-illuminated EMCCD is designed for very rapid imaging of low light events, combining > 500 frames/sec with single photon detection capability and > 90% Quantum Efficiency. Thermoelectric cooling down to -100°C minimizes EM-amplified darkcurrent, whereas Andor’s ‘overclocked’ vertical shift speeds minimize both clock induced charge noise and vertical smear during frame transfer.

Specifications:

• Active pixels: 128 x 128
• Pixel size (W x H): 24 x 24 μm
• Active area pixel well depth: 160,000 e
• Gain register pixel well depth: 800,000 e
• Maximum readout rate: 10 MHz
• Frame rate: 513 - 14,025 fps
• Read noise: < 1e- with EM gain
• Maximum cooling: -100°C
• Sensor Options: #BV: Back Illuminated CCD, Vis optimized

Specifications:

The highly innovative iXon Ultra 888 megapixel, back-illuminated EMCCD camera offers single photon sensitivity across a large field of view, at 26 fps. Building on a rich history of first to market innovation, the ‘supercharged’ iXon Ultra 888, represents a massive performance boost for the largest available EMCCD sensor, as well as the first USB 3.0 enabled EMCCD camera.

BV: Back Illuminated, standard AR coated

• Active pixels (H x V): 1024 x 1024
• Pixel size (W x H; μm ): 13 x 13
• Image area (mm): 13.3 x 13.3
• Active Area Pixel Well Depth (e-): 80,000
• Max Readout Rate (MHz): 30
• Frame rates (fps): 26 (full frame) - 9690
• Read noise (e-): <1 with EM gain
• QE Max: >95%
• Fringe Suppression: BV sensor options
• Active pixels: 1024 x 1024
• Pixel size: 13 x 13 μm
• Image area: 13.3 x 13.3 mm with 100% fill factor
• Pixel Readout Rate: 10 MHz 30 MHz•3

Features:

The Hitachi KP-D50 is ½ ‘’ CCD Color cameras using a digital signal processing circuit.

Specifications:

• High sensitivity: min illumination is 2 lx(f 1.2)
• High resolution:  Horizontal resolution of 470 is achieved by using a CCD having the 380,000NTSC(440,000 PAL)effective pixels.
• High picture quality: Digital signal processing LSI; Contour compensation by digital technology and 2H vertical enhancer; Dynamic range improved by contrast correction processing(Black stretch and white suppression)
• Various functions: Backlight Correction function; Auto tracking white balance; Electronic shutter function.