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1. Raptor’s X-Ray Sensor Replacement Promise

   January 2021 Leave a Comment

   Working with high-energy lasers it is almost inevitable that sensors occasionally get damaged. We appreciate the time and financial impact of downtime associated with a broken camera. At Raptor we have experienced this pain ourselves. As a result, we offer a sensor damage replacement scheme, where we will replace any laser damaged sensors in our cameras at a cost equal to 50% of the initial camera cost, during the first two years of ownership. We will do this quickly and without fuss.

   Visit Raptor Support to find out more details or contact us at sales@raptorphotonics.com

2. Raptor Photonics appoints a new distributor of its camera solutions in India.

   November 2020 Leave a Comment

   Raptor is pleased to announce that S M Creative Electronics Ltd (SMCEL) has been appointed as a distributor of its camera solutions in India.

   With its headquarters at Gurgaon (Haryana), SMCEL is a distributor and value-added reseller for variety of components and sub-assemblies in high technology areas. It has longstanding relationships with Indian Space and Defense contractors as well as academic institutions, R&D departments, and company laboratories across India. The company will market and sell Raptor’s full range of camera solutions. SMCEL was established in 1992 and is an ISO (9001-2015) certified company.

   Contact details:

   S M Creative Electronics Ltd (SMCEL)
   Plot No.38, Hartron Complex, Sector-18, Udyog Vihar, Phase-IV
   Gurugram,
   Haryana 122022

   Tel: +91-124-49-098-50

   Email: smcel@smcel.com

   https://www.smcel.com/

    

3. Raptor appoints new Sales Manager

   October 2020 Leave a Comment

   Raptor welcomes Peter Hagen to the company as our new Sales Manager. As a key part of Raptor’s growth strategy to expand and pursue new markets, Peter will be responsible for growing sales worldwide. Peter has previously held leadership positions in the automotive industry. Welcome aboard Peter as Raptor continues to grow.

4. Raptor launches ultrafast and sensitive EMCCD camera for under $25K

   September 2020 Leave a Comment

   Raptor Photonics has released the Kestrel, an ultra-fast EMCCD camera, offering single-photon sensitivity at KHz frame rates for under $25K. Using a cooled back-illuminated sensor, it offers ultra-high sensitivity from 350nm to 1100nm with a peak QE of 95% at 600nm. Designed with a scientific grade 16-bit A/D converter, it has a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels with 24µm square pixels and provides a standard CameraLink output. The camera can operate up to 2KHz with ROI, making it one of the fastest and most sensitive cameras available on the market. Applications including wavefront sensing, adaptive optics, space debris tracking, calcium signaling, fluorescence imaging, as well as tracking fast objects.

   Kestrel

5. Imaging Venus with a Ninox 640 SWIR Camera

   August 2020 Leave a Comment

   Raptor Photonics has published a new application note based on the work of a German researcher, Dr. Sebastian Voltmer, who has been looking at the inner planet Venus as a Ring next to the sun and how the crescent is getting bigger. He was able to capture the very faint radiation beyond 1000 nm of the surface of Venus thanks to the latest state of the art Ninox 640 II VIS-SWIR camera.  The cooling to -15°C and lowest readout noise, 18 electrons, gave him much better signal-to-noise-ratio and he was able to reveal the surface and the lower clouds in one mage.

   The app note can be downloaded: https://bit.ly/3fOgCFS

6. Passive digital night vision is now possible with Raptor’s Owl 640 N

   August 2020 Leave a Comment

   With ultra-low readout noise (<18e-) and dark current, the Owl 640 N is the first advanced SWIR camera with digital night vision capability. The sensor is 640 x 512 with 15μm square pixel pitch and offers visible SWIR wavelength coverage of 600-1700nm. It is temperature stabilized, ultra-compact and low power making it ideal for a range of Electro Optic systems.

   Owl 640 N