Espoo, Finland — 14.1.2025. Emberion, a leading innovator in quantum dot based shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensing technology is exhibiting at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco January 28th to 30th, 2025. Emberion showcases various new unique capabilities, including record high speed quantum dot camera, thermal measurement capability and novel spectral variants. Additionally, Emberion has announced novel capabilities to bring the SWIR sensor cost down by magnitude through its unique wafer-level-packaging technology.
Photonics West is world’s largest photonics event and premier event for lasers, biomedical optics and biophotonic technologies, quantum, and optoelectronics and Emberion is proud to exhibit again at Photonics Finland pavilion.
Unique capability to create spectral range variants
Emberion will be showcasing at Photonics West its latest spectral range variant Emberion VS17. Emberion VS17 is optimized for the atmospheric window between 1500 nm and 1750 nm which is most relevant for demanding surveillance applications, but is also ideal for machine vision such as optical sorting of plastics.
Emberion VS17 underlines the company’s capability to create various spectral range variants beyond the flagship product Emberion VS20 offering extended SWIR spectral range to over 2000 nm. Beyond the Emberion VS17 Emberion is working on also other variants, including one reaching wavelengths up to 2500 nm relevant e.g. for mining industry.
Record high speed and duty cycle make Emberion the prime provider for optical sorting
Emberion offers the highest speed quantum dot cameras on market with 400 fps but beyond that has demonstrated the capability to reach speeds up to 1900 fps. Emberion is also introducing IWR (integrate-while-read) mode into its cameras in addition to the current ITR (integrate-then-read) mode which respectively brings the camera’s duty cycle to >99 %.
When combining these capabilities with spectral range optimization Emberion showcases the ability to provide optimized performance e.g. to optical sorting. While current Emberion VS17 and VS20 cameras already provide very relevant capabilities for that domain, Emberion has already introduced and will be shipping early next year another monochromatic camera version that is specifically optimized for hyperspectral imaging system integration.
Enhanced temperature measurement for process control
Emberion is introducing to its cameras optical power measurement capability that enables e.g. thermography & laser beam profiling. As the first concrete solution in this area, Emberion has developed a tailored solution for remote temperate measurement to be deployed at metal or glass foundries for temperatures above 300 °C.
The key value of SWIR in high temperature measurement is the capability to position the camera behind normal protective window and being able to image the process through glass which is not the case for thermal cameras requiring more complicated enclosures in hostile environments. Also, Emberion’s wide spectral range allows measurement of lower temperatures than standard InGaAs cameras.
Meet Emberion in San Francsico at Finnish Pavilion
Emberion will be demonstrating selected novel capabilities at SPIE Photonics West exhibition (Photonics Finland pavilion 4119) and visitors are encouraged to share their imaging challenges for Emberion team to solve! For those not able to join in person the show Emberion Sales team (sales@emberion.com) will be happy to elaborate more.
About Emberion
Emberion produces high performance visible to short wavelength (VIS-SWIR) infrared cameras with its in-house developed unique nanomaterial-based sensor solution and in-house designed CMOS read out integrated circuit. Emberion cameras provide a wide spectral range (400 – 2000 nm) with high dynamic range capabilities and high speed. The cameras and Emberion’s unique imaging sensors enable various applications within machine vision, defence, medical, automotive, consumer and other areas where both visible and infrared capabilities are utilized. www.emberion.com
