Teledyne DALSA Launches Piranha Near-Infrared Camera for Machine Inspection

Teledyne DALSA launches the new Piranha HS NIR 8k camera. This camera is designed to provide enhanced sensitivity at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. The Piranha HS NIR is built on technology, which provides time delay and integration (TDI).

The camera works well in environments that require low intensity light such as solar cell inspection, large web applications, food and drug inspection, PCB/electronics inspection etc.

The senior product manager at Teledyne DALSA pointed out that the Piranha provides the required sensitivity in the NIR region. He added that the TDI technology in the camera is useful in applications that require multiple exposures at high sensitivities and low noise operations. It is best suited for low noise and high speed applications. Piranha is part of the high sensitivity product range from Teledyne that are low-cost solutions for imaging in the NIR wavelengths from 700 to 1050 nm. The camera operates at select TDI stages up to a maximum of 256; the area mode of operation is designed for easy alignment. The camera can be programmed accommodating up to four sets of coefficients and can make use of mirroring control, flat field correction and forward/reverse control. The 256 TDI stages and improved sensitivity in NIR provide electroluminescence at 1000 nm of wavelengths. The images captured by the camera are of resolution 8192 x 256 TDI pixels. The 320 Mpix/s throughput and 34.3 kHz line rate facilitates faster inspection and high productivity. Bidirectional operation helps in reducing the cost of operation during the inspection processes and has 100 x anti-blooming with camera link interface.