Introduction; What's In This Manual; Purpose; Product Overview - PerkinElmer RETICON LD3500 Series Instruction Manual

1 Introduction

1.1 What's In this Manual

This manual describes the receiving, unpacking and inspection of your LD3500
series camera. Included is a operational overview that defines the camera
operation and the controls provided. Guidance is provided for the installation,
setup and initial operation of your LD3500 camera.

1.2 Purpose

To provide machine vision system engineers and technicians a definitive guide
for integrating LD3500 series cameras into their specific machine vision
application.

1.3 Product Overview

The LD3500 series cameras are designed for linear line scan image capture
applications. 512, 1024 and 2048 pixel line scan image capture is offered at 20 or
40 megapixels/second, depending on the camera model selected. Each camera
uses a PerkinElmer P-series photodiode linear array with 14µm pixel pitch at a 14
µm aperture. This provides a 48dB dynamic range over a spectral range of 350 to
1000 nm. All camera control functions are selected by the serial connection on
the Camera Link
I/O is provided as differential RS-644 for all camera models.

1.4 Functional Description

The LD3500 series cameras incorporate high performance, high resolution line
scan image sensors. (PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Imaging Systems parts
RL0512PAG, RL1024PAG, or RL2048PAG) featuring pinned photodiode pixels.
Each photodiode converts incident light into discrete charge packets that are
converted to an analog voltage.
The analog voltage is processed as a single channel sampled and held raster order
analog video data signal. Analog processing circuitry provides adjustable gain
levels allowing the accommodation of unique lighting requirements. Figure 1 is a
block diagram illustrating the major camera components.
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