Andor’s Apogee Camera Range presents a wide selection of full frame and interline cooled CCD options, offering superb medium to very high resolution imaging solutions. The range has long been the detection solution of choice for high resolution applications, including astronomy and gel applications.
The Apogee Alta family has been a mainstay of high performance imaging for many years, offering a wide range of full frame and interline CCDs up to 16.8 Megapixel, ideally suited to both OEM and research markets. Cooling performance down to 50 °C below ambient offers low darkcurrent contribution, ensuring optimal signal to noise for long exposure applications such as astronomy or chemiluminescence detection. USB 2.0 interface offers the convenience of simple, robust connection to PC.
Ideal for OEM and astronomy applications, the Apogee Alta family has been a mainstream of high end imaging for many years, offering a wide range of full frame and interline CCDs. Cooling performance down to 50 0C below ambient ensures optimal signal to noise for long exposure applications. A USB 2.0 interface offers the convenience of simple, robust connection to PC.
Apogee Alta cameras are available with a wide variety of sensors, including: Back-illuminated sensors with very high quantum efficiency, some with sensitivity in the deep UV; Interline transfer sensors with fast electronic shuttering and inherent anti-blooming; front-illuminated CCDs with high sensitivity in the near-IR without etaloning and a range of resolution options up to 16.8 Megapixel.
High resolution sensors – Sensors up to 16.8 Megapixel, offering large field of view at high resolution
Programmable TE cooling to 50 °C below ambient – Ideal for detection of weak chemiluminescence or astronomy images, enabling long exposure acquisitions with optimized signal to noise ratio
High Dynamic Range – Large pixel sensor variants offer extended intrascene quantification of weak and bright objects
16-bit digitization – High photometric accuracy
In built shutter – Shutter during readout and take dark reference frames – 25, 43mm or 63mm.
USB 2.0 – Direct ‘Plug and Play’ connectivity
Programmable I/O port – Synchronization with intricate experimental set-ups
Remote triggering – LVTTL input allows exposure to start within 25 microseconds of rising edge of trigger
Focusing mode – Faster readout option, ideal for focus optimization
Andor OEM optimization – Compact and robust, Andor integration support, Andor quality enhancement, Andor post-sale support. Now also supported by ‘Andor SDK3’
| Model | Sensor type | Array Size | Megapixels | Pixel size (um) | Diagonal (mm) | |
| X | Y | |||||
| F42 | FF, BI, UV | 2048 | 2048 | 4.2 | 13.5 | 39.1 |
| F47 | FF, BI, UV | 1024 | 1024 | 1.0 | 13 | 18.8 |
| F16 | FF, FI | 4096 | 4096 | 16.8 | 9 | 52.1 |
| F16M | FF, FI | 4096 | 4096 | 16.8 | 9 | 52.1 |
| F9000 | FF, FI | 3056 | 3056 | 9.3 | 12 | 51.9 |
| F8300 | FF, FI | 3326 | 2504 | 8.3 | 5.4 | 23.2 |
| F32 | FF, FI | 2184 | 1472 | 3.2 | 6.8 | 18.1 |
| F2 | FF, FI | 1536 | 1024 | 1.6 | 9 | 16.6 |
| F6 | FF, FI | 1024 | 1024 | 1.0 | 24 | 34.8 |
| F1 | FF, FI | 768 | 512 | 0.4 | 9 | 8.3 |
| F260 | FF, FI | 512 | 512 | 0.3 | 20 | 14.5 |
