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SITe Scientific Grade Fiber Optic
CCD Imagers SIC003AF, SIC502AF and STC006AF:
Ideal for electronic imaging applications including
medical, X-ray, and inspection.
General Description
The SITe SIC and STC families of fiber optic CCD imagers
are designed specifically for electronic imaging
applications including medical, X-ray, and inspection.
Both families can use a tapered coupler or window as a
substitute for a lens. This results in high transmission
efficiency, high resolution, and low distortion. The SIC
family of imagers are fiberoptic window versions of
SITe's most popular CCDs including the SIC003A, a
1024x1024 element CCD with MPP, and the SIC502A, a
512x512 element CCD. The STC006A is a new 1080x314
element rectangular CCD.
Device Description
Fiberoptic CCD Family
A fiberoptic face plate is a coherent array of millions
of optical fiber waveguides. Each of these fibers has a
core glass coated by a cladding glass having a lower
refractive index, so the incident light will be totally
internally reflected. Visual images are transmitted from
the input surface to the output surface with high
resolution. The SIC series fiber optic assemblies are
manufactured by coupling the output of the fiber optic
window to the CCD using an index matching coupling
compound. The assembly has been fully environmentally
qualified and can withstand thermal cycling between
-45єC and +40єC at a temperature change rate of 5Cє
per minute or less . The materials used in manufacture
have been optimized to minimize moirИ patterns,
blemishes and fixed pattern noise while maintaining high
optical throughput and image contrast. Some degradation
of the dark defect blemish specification of a normal bare
imager due to Fiber Optic blemishes can be expected. It
should never exceed the particular device blemish
specification by more than 20% of the non fiber optic
device measurement. Typical faceplate geometry of the
input surface is 6mm fibers with the line blemish
(chicken wire) aligned to 45ј off the edge of the
imager. The numerical aperture (NA) of the input surface
is 1.0.
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