First Light Advanced Imaging C-RED 2 InGaAs SWIR camera

The C-RED 2 Extended Range (ER), by First Light Advanced Imaging, is a sensitive extended short wave infrared camera (1300–2200 nm) based on a VGA (640 x 512 pixels) ER-InGaAs detector array. The camera combines high frame rates (up to 600 frames per second in full frame) and high sensitivity with a readout noise below 50 e-RMS.

Available in two versions, the C-RED 2 ER SWIR 1.9 µm and 2.2 µm open new perspectives for a range of applications including hyperspectral imaging, adaptive optics, laser communication, surveillance and safety as well as defence applications, laser detection for defence and communication, and hyperspectral imaging for waste sorting, food inspection or pharmaceuticals.

The camera can be cooled down to -55°C with water cooling (no liquid nitrogen) to enhance performance. The camera also comes with multiple embedded corrections that can be applied on the fly: bad pixels correction, 2-point Non-Uniformity Correction, etc with no degradation of the image spatial resolution, loss of speed or restriction on frame rate.

The camera offers both USB and Camera Link Full interfaces. It is integrated in the First Light Vision Graphical User Interface (GUI) which is cross-platform (Windows 10, Linux Ubuntu 16.04 & 18.04, and all Nvidia Jetson). To help programmers develop their own interface for C-RED 2 ER, the Software Development Kit (SDK) provides source codes for short demos in C/C++, Labview, Python and MatLab.