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The family of ROSS* high speed, multichannel, self-calibrating streak cameras and accessories for X-ray, ultraviolet, visible & infrared wavebands

NEW product

laser pulser The Sydor Fiberised laser pulser is a compact VCSEL connected to a fibre output. It is designed to be driven by an external pulse generator and is ideal for calibrating streak cameras with ramp times longer than 1µs.
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ROSS 1000 The new Sydor ROSS 1000 is our synchroscan streak camera. This camera is suitable for a wide variety of applications requiring accumulation of fast signals which operate at a constant frequency. Examples include visible beam diagnostics in particle accelerators, and measuring the time response of pulsed laser interactions in materials characterization and FLIM studies.
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ROSS 2550 The Sydor ROSS 2550 is an economical, smaller format streak camera for a variety of ultrafast applications where multiple data channels and auto-calibration is not required. The ROSS 2550 can operate as a stand alone, single beam instrument or expanded to incorporate the features of the Sydor ROSS Optical Calibration Module (OCM) for auto-calibration. The ROSS 2550 shares many of the same attributes of the other ROSS platforms such as remote operation, extensive EMI shielding, and fast, reliable data acquisition. The ROSS 2550 is most suitable for applications such as spectroscopy, detonics, energetics, VISAR experiments, and other diagnostic applications where single beam imaging is most important.
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ROSS 5100 The Sydor ROSS 5100 is an advanced data collection system. The Sydor ROSS Streak Camera system is the only self-calibrating streak camera with the highest precision and greatest accuracy of any commercially available instrument. The Sydor ROSS 5100 enables picosecond measurements of plasma and particle physics phenomenon with better than 1% measurement accuracy. The product was developed for the laser fusion program at the University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics. The key feature of this novel instrument is self-calibration. The Sydor ROSS Streak Camera system can be calibrated in place, alleviating the need to send the camera back to the manufacturer for calibration. Available in both UV/VIS and IR/VIS configurations.
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ROSS 8200 The Sydor ROSS 8200 is for the most demanding applications where speed and spatial resolution need to be their best, the Sydor ROSS 8200 delivers the fastest temporal resolution at the highest possible spatial resolution. The Sydor ROSS 8200 system enables the most complex high-speed data collection tasks in the world today. Available in both UV/VIS and IR/VIS configurations.
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ROSS 8600 The latest evolution of the Sydor ROSS product family is the Sydor ROSS 8600. Like the UV & IR versions, the Sydor ROSS 8600 X-Ray system will deliver high precision and accuracy enabling single secondary electron detection and world-class performance in the most demanding applications. Key features include fully remote operation with advanced software interface, flat field imaging and geometric distortion correction, reflection mode fiber optic timing fiducial, electro-optic shuttering, and quick-change photocathode plate that accepts a variety of UV & X-Ray sensitive materials. The entire package is compatible with a vacuum air bubble & TIM interface.
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Optical Calibration Module The Sydor ROSS Optical Calibration Module (OCM) is exclusively designed to work with the Sydor ROSS Streak Camera for system calibration and imaging of fiber coupled and free space signals onto the streak tube of the Sydor ROSS Streak Camera. This patented module enables 1% measurement accuracy, remote operation, and auto-calibration for the Sydor ROSS Streak Camera.
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X-ray CCD camera The Sydor ROSS Vacuum X-Ray CCD Camera is a new, compact X-ray digital camera capable of operating completely in a vacuum. The camera utilises a 16MP sensor with 9 micron pixels for the highest resolution in the most demanding scientific applications. With flexible binning and ROI readouts, the Sydor X-ray camera is capable of performing in many different applications such as plasma physics, deep UV lithography, X-ray microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy. Unique features include thermoelectric cooling down to -10C, fibreoptic communication link for low noise operation, and sensitivity from X-ray/UV to optical wavelengths. A fully digital output with on-board A-to-D conversition limits interference from external noise. The camera also has a 100% fill-factor ensuring maximum collection efficiency.
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Femtosecond autocorrelator Sydor Instruments offers several custom diagnostic solutions for measuring femtosecond pulses in a variety of ultrafast applications. For single shot events down to 500 femtoseconds, a time expanded single shot autocorrelator is the instrument of choice. For multiple overlapping pulses of a single wavelength down to 200 femtoseconds, a crystal scanning autocorrelator will do the job. For multiple wavelengths from tunable lasers, an all-reflective broadband scanning autocorrelator will cover the entire spectrum in a simple, compact package.
  • Time Expanded Single Shot Autocorrelator
  • Crystal Scanning Autocorrelator
  • Broadband Scanning Autocorrelator

  • Click here to contact us to discuss your Femtosecond Autocorrelation requirements

    Optical comb generator Sydor Instruments provides ultrafast solid state laser sources for use in a variety of diagnostic applications in energetics, detonics, and radiography. Sydor's laser sources are ideally suited for use with our portfolio of imaging detectors and ultrafast recording systems. We can design and build custom configurations that are tailored to your unique application. Our compact, VCSEL optical comb generator delivers UV, Visible, or IR pulses on the order of several GHz for the most demanding applications. It is ideal for accurate, time base calibration of electro-optic instrumentation, sensors, detectors, and streak cameras.
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    8GHz comb generator NEW 8GHz optical comb generator.
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    Custom design Finally, Sydor Instruments understand that your experiments require unique measurement capabilities and are able to engineer custom electronics that will deliver the performance you are looking for.
    Whether it's faster/slower sweep speeds, running custom streak tubes, or interfacing with a custom CCD camera, Sydor Instruments can accommodate your request.

    We have a highly qualified team in the areas of electronics, optics, software, and mechanical engineering ready to design a custom solution for you. If you need to interface with a spectrometer or other measuring device Sydor Instruments can help you get the results you need. Do you have a complex experimental set-up that needs to be built in tandem with the streak camera? Sydor Instruments can help you design and build complete experimental diagnostic stations for specific applications such as VISAR.

    The Sydor ROSS Streak Camera is supplied complete with imaging software, control software, and all the firmware necessary to make precision measurements. While Sydor Instruments understand the analytical needs of the most complex experiments and measurements they also offer custom software design services that will help you to graph, model, and analyze your data more efficiently and effectively than writing it yourself. Sydor Instruments are also able to customize the Sydor ROSS software to work with your existing software/IT or control infrastructure.

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