First Light Imaging

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About First Light Imaging

Number of Employees: 33

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Europarc St Victoire
Bat 5 Rt de Valbrillant
Le Canet Meyreuil 13590
France

Phone: 33-4-42-61-29-20

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FLI designs low-noise high-speed scientific cameras for visible and infrared SWIR spectra around EMCCD, e-APD, InGaAs, and CMOS sensors. Applications are astronomy, life sciences, research, surveillance, and industry.

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Cameras

C-BLUE One

C-BLUE One: Fast and sensitive CMOS camera with global shutter: Wavelength: 0.4 to 0.9 µm, >70% QE, Optimized size/speed/pitch: the camera exists in 1.7MP, 0.5MP for higher speed...

Cameras

C-RED 2

High speed and low noise scientific SWIR InGaAs cooled camera : Wavelength: 0.9 to 1.7 µm, > 70% QE, 660 FPS full frame, Learn More

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C-RED 2 Lite

High speed and low noise scientific SWIR InGaAs stabilized camera : Wavelength: 0.9 to 1.7 µm, > 70% QE, 660 FPS full frame, 30 RON. Applications: high end industry, science and...

Cameras

C-RED 2 Extended Range

High speed and low noise scientific extended InGaAs cooled camera : Wavelength: from 1.1 to 1.9 µm or 1.3 to 2.2µm, > 70% QE, 660 FPS full frame, Learn More

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C-RED 3

High speed scientific SWIR uncooled camera : Wavelength: 0.9 to 1.7 µm, > 70% QE, 660 FPS full frame, Learn More

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Preview: SPIE Photonics West 2024 exhibitor products

Here's a snapshot of what will be shown on the SPIE Photonics West 2024 exhibit floor.

Detectors & Imaging

Drone-enabled solution to PV inspection

Peter Fretty

Combining a line laser, SWIR camera, and drone technology provides PV plant operators with a contactless solution to improve their ongoing inspection processes.

FIGURE 1. Free-space optical (FSO) communication basic principle.

Optics

SWIR camera and adaptive optics boost high-speed FSO communications

Isaure de Kernier

A shortwave-infrared camera is specially designed for use in closed-loop adaptive optics for free-space optical communications.

Detectors & Imaging

First Light Imaging sCMOS camera has use in astronomy

The C-BLUE One scientific CMOS camera features a 1608 × 1104 monochrome CMOS sensor with a 660 fps frame rate.

Quantum efficiency (QE) as a function of wavelength for the C-RED 3 camera is shown at three different operating temperatures. The slight shift of response toward longer wavelengths and slight decrease in QE as temperature decreases should be inconsequential for normal use in AO for a FSO system. In addition, for portable FSO use at differing temperatures, the camera has an adaptive bias-plus-dark correction that is automatically updated based on any temperature changes.

Detectors & Imaging

Adaptive Optics: Small uncooled SWIR camera for AO has low noise for free-space optical communications

John Wallace

A shortwave-infrared (SWIR) camera for adaptive optical (AO) systems used in free-space optical communications is lightweight while maintaining low noise and high frame rate.

Detectors & Imaging

First Light Imaging InGaAs camera has Camera Link or USB3 connectivity

The C-RED 3 compact InGaAs camera is suited for short exposure solutions.

FIGURE 1. Utah’s Salt Lake Valley occasionally experiences an atmospheric phenomenon that traps air pollution for days or weeks at a time. During these atmospheric inversion events, ground-level visibility is severely reduced. These images taken from a video show visible imagery (a) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) imagery (b) during a period of very low ground-level visibility on December 7, 2017 at approximately 3:30 pm MST (to see the video, visit https://youtu.be/3cBkfQb8vxQ). The SWIR imagery was captured at 60 fps with the Sensors Unlimited GA1280JSX mini-SWIR area camera and a 200 mm SWIR-optimized f/1.6 lens. The visible imagery was captured with a Nikon D5100 DSLR camera in video mode and a 55–200 mm f/4.5-5.6 lens. Both sets of imagery are cropped, but are otherwise unchanged.

Detectors & Imaging

Photonics Products: Imaging for Surveillance and Security: SWIR cameras cut through haze for surveillance and security

John Wallace

Covert operations commonly use thermal imaging and/or night vision, but the shortwave infrared (SWIR) band has its own advantages, such as seeing through atmospheric haze.

Test fringes obtained with the MIRC-X instrument and C-RED One are displayed. Top is the image without gain, equivalent to the one obtained with a classical scientific infrared camera; bottom is the image obtained with C-RED one, showing the spectacular increase of signal to noise ratio when avalanche gain is applied.

Detectors & Imaging

C-Red One IR interferometer now operational at the CHARA telescope array

Gail Overton

Low-noise infrared cameras are opening new perspectives in infrared interferometry for astronomy.

FIGURE 1. The C-RED One camera (a) with sub-electron-noise 1750 frames/s e-APD imager can be operated in extreme and remote locations with only an electrical power supply and water cooling; its outer skin and input window have been removed to show internal components. A close-up (b) shows the cold finger before integration of the cooled focal plane array inside the camera package.

Detectors & Imaging

Advances in Imaging: Electron-initiated APDs improve high-speed SWIR imaging

Electron-initiated avalanche photodiodes using mercury cadmium telluride semiconductor materials have improved SWIR imaging.

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Attendees make their way into the SPIE Photonics West 2022 exhibition hall.

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SPIE Photonics West 2023 exhibitor products (UPDATED 1/27)

Lee Dubay

Get a first look at what will be shown on the SPIE Photonics West 2023 exhibit floor.