(JAI: San Jose, CA) -- JAI Inc. has announced the release of the LQ-200CL, a new prism-based 4-CCD color line scan camera providing simultaneous separate imaging of red, green, and blue (R,G,B), plus near-infrared light data.

The camera, which is one of the only industrial-grade 4-CCD line scan cameras on the market, features a beam splitter prism with hard dichroic coatings incorporating four precisely pixel-to-pixel aligned CCD sensors. The R,G,B, and NIR light spectrum bands are captured simultaneously in four separate channels through the same optical path. With the addition of a NIR sensor, the new camera makes it possible to identify an even wider range of defects on inspected objects.

Each of the 4-CCD sensors provides 2,048 linear pixels with a pixel size of 14 μm × 14 μm square. The camera runs at a maximum scan rate of 19,048 lines per second with a 40 MHz pixel clock, delivering a high signal-to-noise ratio of 58 dB.

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