Edmund Optics expands portfolio beyond optical components…

21 Oct 2024

…while Teledyne presented wide range of new imaging technologies at VISION.

Edmund Optics has announced the addition of optical coherence tomography phantoms and diffuse reflectance phantoms to its product portfolio, now providing off-the-shelf, standardized ready-to-use tools for researchers and engineers for the calibration and optimization of imaging systems in research and clinical applications.

The OCT phantoms offer a controlled sample for testing and calibrating OCT systems featuring well-characterized optical properties such as refractive index, scattering coefficient, and absorption coefficient for ensuring accurate and reliable measurements.

Now available off-the-shelf in designs including “point spread, multilayer, pyramid, and multipurpose”, the phantoms ensure accurate testing of system parameters like depth resolution, image contrast, and sensitivity, providing consistency across clinical and research measurements.

Additionally, the diffuse reflectance phantoms simulate the optical properties of biological tissues for calibration, characterization, and analysis in biophotonics applications.

Now available off-the-shelf in sizes of 25x25 mm and 50x50 mm for muscle, brain, and adipose tissue, these phantoms suit applications like spatial frequency domain imaging, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, and diffuse Raman spectroscopy.

Edmund says that “the addition of biological tissue phantoms is a significant milestone, expanding our portfolio beyond traditional optical components. This step provides off-the-shelf, standardized tools for researchers and industry engineers in biophotonics.”

Teledyne presented latest imaging technologies at VISION

Teledyne Vision Solutions showcased its latest products and solutions at the VISION 2024 exhibition, held earlier this month, in Stuttgart, Germany.

Teledyne’s DALSA, e2v, Flir, Lumenera and Adimec businesses presented a vertically-integrated portfolio of industrial imaging technology. New products introduced included:

• Linea HS2 TDI line scan camera range, designed for ultra-high-speed imaging in low-light conditions. It delivers high image quality with 16k/5 µm resolution and an “industry-leading maximum line rate of 1 Megahertz, or 16 Gigapixels/s throughput”.
• Optimom 5D turnkey imaging module features the Topaz5D image sensor, a compact board, standard connector, and a pre-assembled lens. This board-level vision extension integrates full-HD 2D vision with the generation of 3D depth data.
• BOA 3 smart camera, an integrated vision system in a compact, rugged smart camera format, combines advanced sensor and AI inspection technologies for industrial automation and inspection.
• Dragonfly S camera series, designed with modularity and simplicity in mind, empowers vision system designers by allowing customized camera configurations to precisely meet their needs.
• Bumblebee X is an industrial grade (IP67) stereo vision solution with onboard processing to build systems for warehouse automation, robotics guidance, and logistics.
• SightBase, a software-as-service platform, revolutionizes the design-in process and empowers machine vision system integrators to create robust solutions.
• Forge 1GigE SWIR camera series features the latest Sony Sen-SWIR InGaAs sensors in a highly compact form; and
• The Forge 1GigE IP67 delivers a new series of affordable GigE Vision interface cameras engineered for industrial imaging applications that need ingress protection (IP67), and robust data capture and transfers.