Trigger And Strobe; Introduction; Trigger Source - Photon Focus MV1-D2080(IE) Series User Manual

An example of a high-speed measurement of the elongation of an injection needle is given in
Fig. 4.25. In this application the height information is less important than the width
information. Applying decimation 2 on the original image on the left-hand side doubles the
resulting frame.
Figure 4.25: Example of decimation 2 on image of injection needle

4.4 Trigger and Strobe

4.4.1 Introduction

The start of the exposure of the camera's image sensor is controlled by the trigger. The trigger
can either be generated internally by the camera (free running trigger mode) or by an external
device (external trigger mode).
This section refers to the external trigger mode if not otherwise specified.
In external trigger mode, the trigger can be applied through the CameraLink
(interface trigger) or directly by the power supply connector of the camera (I/O Trigger) (see
Section 4.4.2). The trigger signal can be configured to be active high or active low. When the
frequency of the incoming triggers is higher than the maximal frame rate of the current
camera settings, then some trigger pulses will be missed. A missed trigger counter counts these
events. This counter can be read out by the user.
The exposure time in external trigger mode can be defined by the setting of the exposure time
register (camera controlled exposure mode) or by the width of the incoming trigger pulse
(trigger controlled exposure mode) (see Section 4.4.4).
An external trigger pulse starts the exposure of one image. In Burst Trigger Mode however, a
trigger pulse starts the exposure of a user defined number of images (see Section 4.4.6).
The start of the exposure is shortly after the active edge of the incoming trigger. An additional
trigger delay can be applied that delays the start of the exposure by a user defined time (see
Section 4.4.5). This often used to start the exposure after the trigger to a flash lighting source.

4.4.2 Trigger Source

The trigger signal can be configured to be active high or active low by the TriggerActivation
(category AcquisitionControl) property. One of the following trigger sources can be used:
Free running The trigger is generated internally by the camera. Exposure starts immediately
after the camera is ready and the maximal possible frame rate is attained, if
AcquisitionFrameRateEnable is disabled. Settings for free running trigger mode:
TriggerMode = Off. In Constant Frame Rate mode (AcquisitionFrameRateEnable = True),
exposure starts after a user-specified time has elapsed from the previous exposure start so
that the resulting frame rate is equal to the value of AcquisitionFrameRate.
Software Trigger The trigger signal is applied through a software command (TriggerSoftware
in category AcquisitionControl). Settings for Software Trigger mode: TriggerMode = On
and TriggerSource = Software.
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