Evolve 128: High-Sensitivity EMCCD Camera for Low-Light Applications
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Description
The Evolve™ 128 camera from Photometrics represents a pinnacle in scientific imaging, specifically designed for the life sciences sector. This camera is renowned for its remarkable performance in low-light environments, making it an indispensable tool for researchers and scientists. With its compact design and advanced engineering, the Evolve™ 128 stands as the smallest and most powerful scientific EMCCD camera available today. Its unparalleled sensitivity and precision stem from its exceptional electron multiplication (EM) gain and bias stability, ensuring the highest quality data capture for sophisticated research applications.
At the core of the Evolve™ 128 is its innovative design, featuring 24 x 24-μm pixels that provide an optimized field of view and unmatched sensitivity. The camera is equipped with the most advanced feature set available for low-light applications, including the lowest dark current and read noise levels in its class. This ensures that even the faintest signals are captured with clarity and precision, making it ideal for applications such as in vivo imaging, calcium imaging, and live cell microscopy.
One of the standout features of the Evolve™ 128 is its intelligent FPGA design, which provides precise linearization of EM gain. This self-calibrating linearization guarantees truly quantitative data, maintaining bias stability for a consistent and stable background. The camera's PAR feedback system (Photometrics Active Regulation) delivers unsurpassed EM gain stability, ensuring outstanding signal fidelity across 16 bits. Furthermore, the camera boasts Advanced Clocking Enhancement (ACE) technology, offering pixel-clock timing resolution that is 12 times better than other EMCCD cameras, which minimizes noise and background events.
The Evolve™ 128 also supports a wide dynamic range with its 16-bit digitization, allowing for the detection of both bright and dim signals within the same image. Its frame-transfer EMCCD design ensures a 100% duty cycle, enabling continuous data collection without the need for a mechanical shutter. With its universally accepted Turbo-1394™ interface, the camera guarantees high-bandwidth, uninterrupted data transfer, making it compatible with a wide range of third-party software packages. This seamless integration makes the Evolve™ 128 a versatile and efficient choice for any research facility.
Evolve 128: High-Sensitivity EMCCD Camera for Low-Light Applications
Specifications |
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| Sensor Type: | EMCCD |
| # Pixels (Width): | 128 |
| # Pixels (Height): | 128 |
| Pixel Size (Square): | 24 um |
| Peak Quantum Efficiency: | 97 % |
| Full Frame Rate: | 530 fps |
| Bit Depth: | 16 bit |
Features
- High Performance EMCCD & CCD Cameras: The Evolve™ 128 is the smallest and most powerful scientific EMCCD camera on the market, designed for advanced low-light applications in life sciences.
- Primary Applications: Ideal for In Vivo Imaging, Calcium Imaging, Cell Physiology, Live Cell Microscopy, and Single Molecule Fluorescence.
- High Sensitivity EM Gain: Offers very high sensitivity with a low-noise, impact-ionization process.
- Back-Illuminated EMCCD: Features CCD60 or CCD60-X (with eXcelon technology) with the highest available quantum efficiency (>92% peak QE).
- Optimized Imaging Array: 128 x 128 imaging array with 24 x 24-μm pixels for optimized field of view and highest sensitivity.
- Intelligent FPGA Design: Provides precise linearization of EM gain, ensuring bias stability and truly quantitative data consistently.
- PAR Feedback System: Photometrics Active Regulation delivers unsurpassed EM gain stability for outstanding signal fidelity across 16 bits.
- ACE Technology: Advanced Clocking Enhancement offers pixel-clock timing resolution 12x better than other EMCCD cameras, minimizing noise and background events.
- High-Speed Readout: 10-MHz readout for excellent high-speed image visualization.
- 16-Bit Digitization: Wide dynamic range allows detection of both bright and dim signals in the same image.
- Frame-Transfer EMCCD: Ensures a 100% duty cycle to collect continuous data without a mechanical shutter.
- C-Mount Compatibility: Easily attaches to microscopes, standard lenses, or optical equipment.
Applications
- In Vivo Imaging: Ideal for sensitive biological imaging in living organisms with minimal phototoxicity
- Calcium Imaging: Enables precise measurement of rapid calcium transients in neurons and cells
- Cell Physiology Studies: Supports detailed low-light imaging for physiological experiments
- Live Cell Microscopy: Captures real-time cellular dynamics with minimal noise
- Single Molecule Fluorescence: Detects individual fluorescent molecules with superior sensitivity
Frequently Asked Questions
The primary applications of the Evolve 128 include in vivo imaging, calcium imaging, cell physiology, live cell microscopy, and single molecule fluorescence.
The Evolve 128 features very high sensitivity, low noise, impact-ionization process, optimized field of view, and highest sensitivity.
The Photometrics Evolve 128 is a deep-cooled, back-thinned EMCCD camera designed for low-light-level bio-imaging applications.
The Evolve 128 has very high sensitivity and low-noise impact-ionization process.
The read noise of the Evolve 128 is 46e- (Gain State 2) at 10 MHz EM Port.