A CCD to make you safer

With security being a concern to most these days, ON Semiconductor’s KAE-02150 Interline Transfer EMCCD Image Sensor comes at a perfect time, offering better surveillance capability, as well as industrial and medical imaging. 

The imager is designed to provide exceptional imaging performance even in extreme low-light applications. Each of the sensor’s four outputs has both a conventional horizontal CCD register and a high-gain EMCCD register. An intra-scene switchable gain feature samples each charge packet on a pixel-by-pixel basis to determine whether the charge will be routed through the normal gain output or the EMCCD output based on a user selectable threshold. Outputs from both amplifiers can be used on a pixel-by-pixel basis within the same image, allowing one camera to properly render bright regions in a dark field of view and enabling dynamic compensation under widely varying conditions.