Thorlabs offers four families of scientific cameras: Zelux™, Kiralux®, Quantalux®, and Scientific CCD. Zelux cameras are designed for general-purpose imaging and provide high imaging performance while maintaining a small footprint. Kiralux cameras have CMOS sensors in monochrome, color, NIR-enhanced, or polarization-sensitive versions and are available in compact, passively cooled housings; the CC505MU camera incorporates a hermetically sealed, TE-cooled housing. The polarization-sensitive Kiralux camera incorporates an integrated micropolarizer array that, when used with our ThorCam™ software package, captures images that illustrate degree of linear polarization, azimuth, and intensity at the pixel level. Our Quantalux monochrome sCMOS cameras feature high dynamic range combined with extremely low read noise for low-light applications. They are available in either a compact, passively cooled housing or a hermetically sealed, TE-cooled housing. We also offer scientific CCD cameras with a variety of features, including versions optimized for operation at UV, visible, or NIR wavelengths; fast-frame-rate cameras; TE-cooled or non-cooled housings; and versions with the sensor face plate removed. The tables below provide a summary of our camera offerings.
Limited to 13 fps at 40 MHz dual-tap readout for Gigabit Ethernet cameras; quad-tap readout is unavailable for Gigabit Ethernet cameras.
Limited to 8.5 fps at 40 MHz dual-tap readout for Gigabit Ethernet cameras; quad-tap readout is unavailable for Gigabit Ethernet cameras.
Gigabit Ethernet cameras operating in dual-tap readout mode are limited to 12-bit digital output.
Posted Comments:
Noah Rubin
 (posted 2021-04-07 11:47:05.87)
Hi there,
I am considering purchasing one of your scientific CMOS or CCD sensors. Nowhere in your product comparison or specs do I see anything about linearity of the cameras. I think this is part of the EMVA standard. Do you spec the linearity of your cameras? It is very important for my application.
Noah Rubin
YLohia
 (posted 2021-04-08 10:38:24.0)
Hello Noah, thank you for contacting Thorlabs. We indeed do not state linearity because it is a direct result of the image sensor manufacturer's design and process and therefore beyond our control and not explicitly specified by the manufacturer of the majority of sensors we use. With some exceptions we avoid specifying performance that the manufacturer doesn't and that we cannot control with our design. That being said, we have reached out to you with some characterization data of a single CS505MU unit.