Scientific Imaging Applications

As more and more researchers adopt optical imaging techniques to analyze complex physical, biological, and chemical systems, the demand for high-quality imaging instruments continues to rise. With the advent of highly sensitive charge coupled devices (CCDs), researchers can develop more sophisticated experiments in order to obtain steady state and kinetic (time resolved) data from their applications.

Princeton Instruments has pioneered several state-of-the-art CCD, EMCCD, and ICCD cameras for numerous applications, as illustrated below. If you are working on novel, cutting-edge imaging applications, contact us.

	Combustion Laser-based, optical diagnostic techniques such as PLIF are used to understand and improve different combustion processes.			Single Molecule Detection Researchers explore hidden heterogeneity in chemical systems by measuring the behavior of single molecules rather than the average over the ensemble.
	Pressure Sensitive Paint A global imaging technique involving the use of oxygen sensitive paint to measure the pressure profile of the model under study.			Astronomy Steady state and time resolved photometry techniques are used to explore outerspace and beyond while adaptive optics make images sharper.
	Bose-Einstein Condensate BEC is formed when a gas composed of certain particles, referred to as "bosonic" particles, is cooled to below a critical temperature.			Nanotechnology Imaging in the visible to near IR (NIR) region helps researchers understand the formation of nanotubes and their applications as novel fluorescent tags.
	Surface & Material Analysis Researchers in applications like semiconductor wafer inspection and failure analysis use UV and NIR imaging to analyze surfaces and for deep probing of their materials.			Partical Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) PIV offers an instantaneous velocity profile of the whole flow field by recording the position of the seeding particles in the flow.