The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

Scintillator and Visible Light Detectors

Scintillator and Visible Light Detectors
Scintillator Microscope Andor Neo CMOS Prosilica CCD
Mitutoyo Optics Zeiss Optics X-Ray Eye
Xradia Resolution Pattern Scintillators CoolSNAP CCD

Most of these detector are supported by EPICS areaDetector software.

Scintillator Microscope
The Scintillator Microscope is a complete integrated x-ray imaging system. The system uses an Andor New sCMOS camera with commerical-of-the-shelf optics. The system uses a thin transparent scintillator composed of either undoped YAG substrate with epitaxially grown LuAG:Eu (10 microns) or bulk LuAG:Ce (Crytur). The Detector Pool database model name is: "Andor_Scintillator_Microscope".
Scintillator Microscope User Guide

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Andor Neo CMOS camera
The Andor Neo is front illuminated scientific CMOS camera. Pixels are 6.5 microns and the chip 2560x2160 pixel or 16.6 x 14.0 mm. The Detector Pool unit does not come with any optics, optics and scintillators must be reserved seperately or provided by the beamline.
Andor Neo User Guide
EPICS areaDetector driver

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CoolSNAP HQ CCD
The CoolSNAP HQ is cooled CCD (Sony ICX285; progressive-scan) with an imaging area of 1392 x 1040 with6.45 μm pixels. It is a 12-bit camera with 6-8 electrons of readnoise and 10 Hz frame rate.
CoolSNAP HQ CCD User Guide
CoolSNAP Datasheet
CCD Chip-Sony ICX285AL
EPICS areaDetector driver

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Prosilica CCD
The Prosilica GC-Series cameras are compact cameras with Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The GC1380H is a Sony ICX 285 CCD 1.4 megapixel (1360x1024, 6.45 μm pixels, 8.8 mm x 6.6 mm) running at 30 Hz. The GC2450 is a 5 Megapixels (2448x2050, 3.45 μm pixels, 8.4 x 7.0 mm^2) running at 15 Hz.
DP Prosilica CCD User Guide
Prosilica GC1380H Datasheet
Prosilica GC1380H User Manual
Prosilica GC2450 Datasheet
Prosilica GC2450 User Manual
EPICS areaDetector driver

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Zeiss Optics
The Zeiss optics set is designed to be used with a CoolSNAP camera. The system includes a number of objectives ranging from 2x to 10x and a custom tube lens. The system is inline, meaning that the scintillator, optics and camera are all in a line. This system generally exposes the camera and optics to direct x-ray beam. This exposure can cause the optics transmission to be reduced and high doses of x-rays to cameras can damage the chip.
Each objective has a scintillators mount attached to it and the distance from the objective can be manually adjusted.
The Detector Pool has two sets of Zeiss Optics available for loan.
 

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Mitutoyo Optics
The Mitutoyo optics set is a collection of three long working length objectives (2x, 5x & 10x) and a tube lens and connecting hardware for a c-mount camera. The system does not come with any scintillators. It is recommended that the system be used with a fold mirror, if it is being used with a scintillator.
 

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Xradia Resolution Pattern
The Detector Pool has one Xradia Resolution Pattern (X500-200-16) available for loan. The pattern has features from 0.5-8.0 microns.
 

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X-ray Eye
The X-ray Eye is designed to be a simple beam imaging device. The system is made of off the shelf components and includes scintillator and 2x microscope. The Detector Pool has one X-ray Eye available for loan.
 

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Scintillators
The Detector Pool has limited selection of scintillators, in case of an emergency need at a beamline.
 

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