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Xenics nv
Company Description
Xenics is the leading developer of innovative infrared detection solutions for a wide range of applications. Xenics designs, manufactures and sells infrared detectors and cameras, both line-scan and 2-D, covering the infrared wavelength ranges from 0.4 to 14 micrometers. In addition, Xenics delivers custom products according to the agreed specification and planning. As a European vendor with a worldwide service and distributor network, Xenics is strategically placed to serve global markets with highly innovative products drawing on a strong science and technology background.
Contact Information
 Ambachtenlaan 44
Leuven
Belgium
Press Releases
| New high speed SWIR line-scan Lynx camera
Xenics will demonstrate the Lynx and Gobi-640, as well as the latest upgrades of Cheetah-640CL and Xeva-2.5-320 at BiOS/Photonics West 2011 in Booth# 8325 and 325 respectively.
Lynx: high speed InGaAs line-scan camera
With three resolution options ranging from 512, 1024 up to 2048 pixels, Lynx offers worldwide the highest SWIR resolution featuring a high line rate of up to 40 kHz (1.024-pixel version) and 10 kHz (2.048-pixel version)
Gobi-640: high resolution uncooled thermal camera
The high-resolution, uncooled thermal camera Gobi-640 excels by its image quality realized in a compact yet complete system. Gobi-640 readily fits in various industrial process control environments and is available with a variety of standard accessories.
Cheetah-640CL: now with TE3 option
The Cheetah-640CL camera is now available in a three-stage water-cooled upgrade version making the camera highly sensitive and achieving ultra-low dark current characteristics at long integration times. This is particulary needed in semiconductor failure analysis or luminescence spectroscopy.
Xeva-2.5-320: now available at 200Hz
The Xeva-2.5-320, is now available in a 200 Hz upgrade version. It delivers superior performance for reliable research tasks, allowing faster hyperspectral imaging at frame ratesof 60, 100 or 200 Hz. |
| Xenics Introduces SWIR High Resolution Line Scan Camera
With its innovative SWIR line-scan camera platform Lynx, Xenics is conquering the near infrared realm between 0.9 and 1.7 µm for high-resolution InGaAs line-scan cameras. Lynx provides high optical sensitivity and a broad dynamic range well suited for industrial image processing and optical coherence tomography (OCT).
The new Lynx platform is based on Xenics' proven linear sensor series Xlin. Currently, there are three Lynx models offering line lengths of 512, 1024 or 2048 pixels at a pixel grid of 12.5 or 25 µm and pixel heights of 12.5 or 250µm to cover a wide range of high-resolution industrial and spectroscopy applications.
The Lynx sensor comes standard with a one-stage thermoelectric cooling, which can be expanded to three-stage cooling for a higher signal/noise ratio. In this way small signals in Raman or Photoluminescence Spectroscopy can be readily measured. The camera has a spectrometer flange and it can be equipped with C-mount compatible lenses.
Lynx offers a broad range of advanced techniques featured across the Xenics camera portfolio. The analog signal output of the InGaAs photodiodes is pre-processed on-chip via two CMOS read-out ICs (ROIC) with five integration capacities selectable individually or collectively at runtime. This yields a wide range of conversion characteristics to adapt to the required pixel size and application. Correlated double sensing compensates offset and reset noise, while a subsequent sample/hold stage decouples readout from integration. An analog multiplexer and pad driver transfers all pixel values sequentially to the camera's external analog/digial converter.
In its high sensitivity (HS) mode, Lynx offers a gain of 3.6e- per AD count. For applications where dynamic range is important, Lynx offers a signal to noise ration of up to 3.200:1.
Lynx makes system integration easy through its very flexible user interface. Lynx outputs 14-bit image data via the fast CameraLink or its GigE Vision compatible Gigabit-Ethernet connection. Camera control and parameter selection is provided through a serial interface. Trigger inputs and outputs will synchronize image capturing with selected external events. A GPIO covering 2 inputs and 2 outputs allows to interface dynamically to PLC or PWM controlled systems.
With this set of advanced features, the new Lynx is well suited for near-infrared spectroscopy and image processing as a reliable quality assurance tool to uncover internal defects in the objects under test. Also, highly sensitive NIR cameras can analyze the weak electro-luminescence of solar modules and thereby help increase manufacturing yields.
A very interesting future use area of spectroscopy is optical coherence tomography (OCT), which promises annual growth rates of 60 percent. Near-infrared OCT can capture cross sectional images of human skin without the need to take invasive actions. As such Lynx offers a perfect tool for integration in systems for skin cancer detection. |
| Xenics Opens Sales & Support Subsidiary in the U.S.
Xenics, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solu¬tions covering the LWIR to the visible realm, is broadening its market presence in North America. The newly founded Xenics USA, Inc., is set to intensify sales and application support for U.S. and Canadian customers. Xenics USA will be fully operational in January 2011. It is headed by Luc DeBrouckere, a well known industry expert with 35 years of managerial and technical experience in IR imaging.
"After opening a sales and support office (sInfraRed Pte, Ltd.) in Singapore back in 2008, Xenics now takes the next step in substantially enlarging its footprint in advanced IR imaging equipment and customized IR imaging solutions on the world market. The newly founded Xenics USA, Inc., located near Boston, Mass., will be given the mission to increase and facilitate sales, as well as offer direct local support, to industrial and institutional customers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Besides serving industrial customers Xenics USA is positioned to better penetrate the strategically important and rapidly growing market for security systems as well as the thriving institutional and OEM markets for governmental projects. In this realm, Xenics is prepared to meet a formidable local competition.
"Our American customers are specifically interested in the range of short-wave and long-wave cameras and advanced IR imaging systems that Xenics is able to offer", says Luc DeBrouckere, CEO of Xenics USA. "We are pleased to serve them with our state-of-the-art infrared image capture and processing solutions for a variety of applications. It's important to us to comply with our customers' preference of receiving solid technical and application support through a U.S.-based entity."
The product spectrum marketed and supported by Xenics USA, Inc., which is a 100 percent subsidiary of Leuven, Belgium, based Xenics nv, will include all products and solutions in the company's broad-based product portfolio. Xenics USA, Inc. was incorporated in October 2010. The company will be fully operational in January 2011. Right now, technical support staff positions are filled and DeBrouckere has begun hiring technical talent in the U.S. for sales and support.
"North America is a very important strategic market for us," says Xenics founder and CEO Bob Grietens, who is also President of Xenics USA. "Of course, we face tough competition. But Xenics is ready to tackle these challenges and to grow with new products and developments that need strong local support. I'm sure our U.S. subsidiary will give a definite boost to our worldwide market share." |
| Xenics' infrared cameras for OCT and spectroscopy
At the world's premier biomedical optics exhibition and technical forum for related
technologies and applications, Xenics is focusing on the latest OCT (optical coherence tomography) applications of its proven digital Cheetah
camera, which features a high-speed/high-resolution 2D InGaAs array detector.
Covering the SWIR spectral band 0.9. to 1.7 μm, Cheetah offers a 640 x 512 pixel resolution at a 20μm pixel pitch. Fast data transfer is feasible via double CameraLink connections. The camera is fully software-configurable it combines the TE-cooled InGaAs FPA detector head with control and communications circuitry in a convection-cooled housing. Another highlight of Xenics' presentation at BiOS 2009 is the fully digital, software-configurable, NIR image capture system XEVA-FPA-640. This camera is based on a thermoelectrically cooled InGaAs sensor array featuring 640 x 512 pixels and fitted in a compact housing together with all control and communication electronics. For spectroscopy applications, Xenics is also presenting the XEVA-LIN camera at BiOS 2009. As a digital line-scan (up to 9kHz) camera, XEVA-LIN is well suited for a multitude of spectroscopy and imaging applications. |
| Advanced infrared cameras for scientific markets
Xenics, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solutions from the LWIR to the visible realm, exhibits its latest Cheetah and Gobi cameras for highly demanding scientific applications, including spectroscopy, hyperspectral and thermal imaging. Xenics also
presents its new corporate strategy for serving worldwide markets from its European home base. |
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