64-bit Acquisition Software - The Power of Revolutionary Thinking
From the world leaders in optical spectroscopy and CCD/EMCCD/ICCD technology comes LightField™, an all-new 64-bit data acquisition platform for spectroscopy and imaging. LightField combines complete control over Princeton Instruments’ cameras and spectrometers with easy-to-use tools for experimental setup, data acquisition and post-processing.
LightField™ provides a cutting-edge user interface and the powerful functionality needed to set up and perform complex optical diagnostic experiments. This unique and revolutionary tool lets researchers around the world realize the true potential of their advanced Princeton Instruments low-light-level cameras and spectrographs.
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Top 10 Features of LightField
1. Get up and go!
LightField is smart. Just connect the hardware, launch LightField, and you’re ready to start capturing data. It’s that simple!
LightField detects attached hardware and sets up intelligent defaults for you. |
2. Peace of mind...
We know how important your data is!
LightField automatically saves every acquisition to your desired folder
and keeps track of all experiment settings in the file header.It even saves your raw data when a
post-processing feature is applied.
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3. It knows you...
In many labs, Princeton Instruments cameras and spectrographs are used by multiple researchers.
LightField provides an easy “experiment setup” save/load function that quickly loads your experiment settings for you. |
4. Streams of data...
Need to capture data over an extended
period of time?
Thanks to its native 64-bit architecture,
LightField is not only able to utilize all the
memory (RAM) available on your computer, it can stream multi-gigabyte pixel data directly
into the hard drive, all without missing a beat. |
5. Unite!
Multi-camera control, multi-spectrograph
control.
LightField controls each of the Princeton
Instruments cameras and spectrographs in your lab from a single computer.
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6. Simpler spectrograph alignment... LightField’s ROI and Peak Find features
help you align your camera on your spectrograph more quickly than ever before.
Go from out-of-the-box to spectral
acquisition in minutes! |
7. What's new with Step & Glue?
Traditional approaches can be plagued by a
host of spectral artifacts. Our Intensity Calibration routine automatically corrects these artifacts, delivering a spectrum free of instrumental bias.
For the first time, high resolution and a broad
spectral range can be achieved simultaneously
with no compromises! |
8. It's all about timing!
Every frame (or sub-frame in kinetics readout mode) is automatically hardware time stamped with 1 μsec accuracy and stored in the file data.
Simply perform a cross-section analysis on a sequence of frames to quickly gain insight into the temporal nature of your data. |
9. Search and decide.
Cameras and spectrographs can have a multitude of settings, but only a few are used routinely.
LightField’s smart search function
quickly directs you to the controls you want, as you type.You can even build your own custom settings dock to access frequently used settings! |
10. Powerful, yet easy!
No marketing hyperbole here. LightField allows complete control over supported Princeton Instruments cameras and spectrographs.
All available readout modes, such as frame
transfer, kinetics, spectra kinetics (microsecond time resolution), and custom chip (>10 kHz frame rates), are supported. |
Fancy your own user interface or post-processing tools?
Need to integrate LightField with other software packages? No problem. LightField has powerful add-ins and automation features built-in so that you can get what you really want. All you need is familiarity with programming languages. We even provide more than 20 examples of add-in programs to get you started!
Add-ins: These are user-written utilities or tools that customize the LightField experience. For example, you can modify/add toolbars and tabs, add post-processing or real-time functions (e.g., filters), or change display types.
Automation: You can run LightField from a third-party software program either in the background or the foreground. This is a convenient way to automate routine tasks from familiar programs.
Software SDK: For OEMs and system integrators, a comprehensive PICAM application programming interface (API) is provided for free. Programmers will love the example programs with source code that we have included in the software development kit (SDK).
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Cutting-edge User Interface
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Read what our customers are saying about LightField and Intellical...
"Our research group uses imaging spectrographs from Princeton Instruments to acquire Fourier-resolved photoluminescence data from lanthanide ions, organic molecules, and semiconductor quantum dots. Using LightField v4.0 and its new IntelliCal feature, we have been able to rapidly shift between different detectors and grating sets to work over a broad spectral range. LightField's novel interface allows each user to customization his or her experiments, and the automated IntelliCal routine provides an easy and accurate way to perform both wavelength and intensity calibration in just a few minutes." - Professor Rashid Zia - Brown University
"We are using the PIXIS camera and an Acton Spectrograph to analyze gases in the atmosphere though UV/Visible spectroscopy. Measurements are made for many hours at a time so we use an Add-In to the LightField software for our data acquisition which allows us to easily start our experiment and save the data to multiple files without user intervention." – Dr. Louisa Kramer, Michigan Tech University
New...PI-MAX 3 ICCD Camera Support
What you see is truly what you get!
Princeton Instruments PI-MAX 3 ICCD cameras can measure events with ultra-fine temporal resolution in imaging and spectroscopy experiments.
What you see is truly what you get!
What you see is truly what you get! Princeton Instruments PI-MAX 3* ICCD cameras can measure events with ultra-fine temporal resolution in imaging and spectroscopy experiments via:
- The SuperSynchro™ timing generator
- <500 picosecond gate widths (exposure times)
- Whenever a compatible PI-MAX 3 camera is connected, LightField displays a highly intuitive “virtual” dashboard akin to a laboratory oscilloscope so that you can:
- Adjust the gate delay, width, SyncMaster™, and auxiliary delays on-the-fly
- Easily synchronize your PI-MAX 3 camera with external lasers
- Quickly plot “time vs. intensity” graphs via a single click
* A factory upgrade may be necessary to enable LightField compatibility for certain PI-MAX 3 cameras.
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LightField provides complete timing control for compatible PI-MAX 3 cameras. |
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Introducing IntelliCal™ - Automated wavelength and intensity calibration
Publish with absolute confidence. For the first time, the spectral response of all elements in the detection path, including that of the grating and the camera, has been taken into account.
LightField’s optional IntelliCal feature lets you firmly and immediately establish the accuracy of your spectroscopic data on a pixel-by-pixel basis:
- Calibrate the entire spectrum in both the wavelength and intensity scales
against the NIST database
- Rely on patented technology that delivers up to 10x better accuracy
than standard calibration
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LightField offers patented IntelliCal for accurate spectrum calibration in both the
wavelength and intensity spaces! Data using standard spectral calibration (left); same
data utilizing LightField’s IntelliCal wavelength and intensity calibration (right). |
To learn more about this revolutionary new feature, download our IntelliCal technical
notes.
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