C-BLUE One (formerly C-MORE) is an ultra-high performance scientific CMOS camera specifically designed for demanding imaging applications in the visible range (400 nm – 1000 nm).
The architecture of the camera has been designed to integrate one of three different new generation sensors: thanks to this flexible design, C-BLUE One is able to cover the largest scope of applications.
The camera can be tailored to be the best pixel size, resolution, and frame rate compromise for your use case:
The C-BLUE One cameras offer a very low readout noise enabling imaging in ultra-low light conditions, simultaneously with a global shutter architecture, enabling artefact-free acquisitions in dynamic imaging.
For a CMOS sensor, there are two ways to acquire an image:
The acquisition mode is an intrinsic characteristic of the camera. However, it is important to understand the differences that will occur in an experimental context when using a camera with rolling or global shutter. Global shutter is highly advantageous for dynamic imaging applications for few reasons:
Even in the absence of distortion the top and the bottom of an image acquired in rolling shutter will not be captured at the exact same time point. Different regions of the image are not correlated in time to other regions. Whereas with global shutter, all pixels are exposed at the same time, allowing for accurate temporal correlation of different areas of the sensor.
Synchronizing a rolling shutter camera to other components, such as a light source, can be difficult due to the time delay between the lines of the sensor. This may result in slower cycle times and frame rates relatively to those achievable in global shutter.
Rolling shutter uses simpler pixel architecture than global shutter. Therefore usually rolling shutter is less noisy than global shutter, this is why this architecture is used in scientific applications but with all its drawbacks. With C-BLUE One, simultaneously and for the first time a global shutter architecture and low noise is made possible, which is a major improvement for fast acquisition scientific applications.
By combining a global shutter and high frame rates (up to 662 fps in full frame) to very low noise, C-BLUE One opens new perspectives for applications that simultaneously require truthful/deformation-free images, high temporal resolution, and high sensitivity.
C-BLUE One will open new horizons for low noise high speed visible imaging.
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