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| The Century of the Photon | |
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Pacific Photonics concentrates on serving organizations making or using imaging technologies. Whether your need is for product definition, marketing or planning, vendor selection, competitive evaluation, technology assessment, or any of the other critical activities that arise in taking imaging products to market just look at the list of technologies below. If any of these are part of your plans, we can help. |
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| Image Sensors | |
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Every day new image sensing
devices come on the market. For years, these were CCD
imagers. Now, increasingly, they are CMOS devices or large area
amorphous silicon arrays. Many newer devices incorporate timing
generation or digitizing or even image processing right on the sensing
chip. Soon, there will even be all-polymer imagers.
Selecting the right imager, whether chip, board or camera, is getting
both easier and more difficult - the wide variety improves the chance of
finding just the right unit but the sheer number of choices makes the
evaluation task daunting. Some typical choices presented to us
could include
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| Imaging Components | |
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Just beyond the sensor, the
variety of devices needed to make high-performance imaging systems
explodes. On the "before" side are sensor drivers and
timing generators and power supplies and optics. On the
"after" side are low-noise amplifiers and digitizers, and
image processors. Everywhere there are interfaces. For a
product to work as needed, all of these must be right. As more of
these complex functions are reduced to silicon, pixels shrink and arrays
grow, the need to maximize all of the tradeoffs might lead us to
investigate
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| Imaging Systems | |
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As more and more imaging
systems become just sensors connected to powerful personal computers
systems integration decisions would seem to get easier - but they
don't. With each decrease in requirements for custom hardware,
expanding functionality and especially increasingly complicated software
take up the slack. In many cases, the entire system is not even at
one location, networks and now the Internet have seen to that.
Concerns about integration, support, stability, longevity and expectations
for expansion and upgrade can often lead us to consider
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| X-ray Imaging | |
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Long used in mainstream medical
applications, electronic x-ray imaging systems are increasingly finding
use in science and industry. In all fields, improved geometric and
exposure measurement accuracy has supported more complex processing of
image data including, now, substantial increases in computer decision
making. It has long been the goal to replace the wide variety of
x-ray imagers with flat plates connected to computers. This now
seems likely in the near future. As a result, new applications are
arising and equipment options are expanding leading to a need to consider
new options in
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| Imaging Test Equipment | |
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Product specifications mean nothing without proper test tools and repeatable procedures. Often, some test facilities must be included in the product itself to provide verification at startup or on request that the data being received is truly representative of the object being imaged. Conformance to recognized performance requirements with the use of standard test objects is increasingly being required. We can help identify which objects and procedures are suitable for your products and assist in establishing test procedures and record management. |
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