The camera is designed for researchers and original equipment manufacturers
Hamamatsu Photonics, a manufacturer of optical devices, has introduced a back-illuminated sensor camera, the Orca-Halo.
The scientific CMOS camera can achieve a peak quantum efficiency of 86% while ensuring low noise and improved signal-to-noise ratios, even for demanding fluorescent imaging applications.
Designed for academic researchers and original equipment manufacturers, the Orca-Halo offers a high resolution and wide field of view. The camera’s 9PM resolution (3,000 x 3,000 pixels) and a compact 3.76μm pixel size makes it suitable for advanced microscopy.
The camera can handle a range of experimental conditions, featuring forced air and water cooling mechanisms. Dark current for long-exposure imaging is minimised to ensure reliability regardless of experimental setup.
Accurate results are also supported by the camera’s light sheet readout mode, which synchronises readout timing with excitation light. This reduces scattered light and delivers precise results in light-sheet microscopy.
The Orca-Halo offers flexible settings to optimise performance on specific samples, enhancing sensitivity for faint signals.
Hamamatsu’s release of the Orca-Halo comes just one month after it launched a sensor series designed for high sensitivity and low noise performance.
