First Light C-RED 2 Extended Range shortwave infrared camera

The C-RED 2 Extended Range (ER) by First Light Advanced Imaging is a highly sensitive extended shortwave infrared camera (1300–2200 nm) based on a VGA (640 x 512 pixels) ER-InGaAs detector array. The C-RED 2 ER SWIR camera combines high frame rates (up to 600 fps in full frame) with high sensitivity and a readout RMS noise below 50 e-. Available in two versions, the C-RED 2 ER SWIR 1.9 µm and 2.2 µm is suitable for a wide range of applications in industry including multispectral imaging, quality/production control and laser beam characterisation.

The camera can be cooled down to -55°C with water cooling (no liquid nitrogen) for optimised performance. The C-RED 2 SWIR Extended Range comes with multiple embedded corrections that can be applied on the fly — such as bad pixel correction and 2-point non-uniformity correction — with no degradation of the image spatial resolution, loss of speed or restriction on framerate.

The camera offers both USB and Camera Link Full interfaces. It is integrated in the First Light Vision Graphical User Interface (GUI) which is supported on Windows10, Linux Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, and all Nvidia Jetson systems. To help programmers develop their own interface for C-RED 2 ER, the SDK provides source code for short demos in C/C++, LabView, Python and MatLab.