C-RED 3 | Low SWaP Uncooled High-Speed SWIR camera

C-RED 3 – High speed SWIR camera

Specially designed for short exposure times applications, C-RED 3 is the fastest VGA uncooled camera for short wave infrared (SWIR) imaging.

C-RED 3 is using a TEC-less 640 x 512 InGaAs PIN Photodiode detector with 15 μm pixel pitch for high resolution, which embeds an electronic shutter with integration pulses shorter than 1 μs.

Operating from 0.9 to 1.7 µm, C-RED 3 is also capable of windowing down for higher frame rate. Multiple on-board functionalities are offered such as user configurations, NUC tables, adaptive bias and HDR mode.

Autonomous, ultra compact and perfect for stable temperature environments, C-RED 3 expands the C-RED family, offering a solution for every application and every budget.

C-RED 3 can also be supplied as OEM. Some applications include free space optical telecommunications (FSO), wavefront sensing camera, laser guide star, high-speed imaging, tracking etc.

The graph below shows the total noise (readout noise + dark current contribution) at different temperatures and exposure times.

First Light Vision GUI

First Light Vision Embedded Web Interface

Reasons to chose C-RED 3

• FASTER: C-RED3 is the fastest SWIR InGaAs in its category with 600FPS full frame.
• LOW NOISE: C-RED3 offers <50e- of readout noise for high sensitivity.
• HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE WITH HDR MODE: 93 dB of linear dynamic range and true 16-bit images. Enhance your vision with the HDR module enabled at full frame rate.
• LOW SWaP: Affordable OEM version available for easy integration in complex systems.
• UNIQUE ADAPTIVE BIAS: The adaptive BIAS correction allows to use the uncooled C-RED 3 in a variable temperature environment.
• COMPREHENSIVE SDK: Each camera comes with a GUI and free SDK to develop your own solution under Linux, Windows and Jetson. Plug-ins are available for: μManager, Labview, Python, C, C++, and more.