Discover how the charge-coupled device (CCD) revolutionized imaging technology, impacting photography, astronomy, medicine, and more.

Placing a CCD array at the prime focus of a telescope or observatory is a surefire way to get an outstanding image; a technique that's been in use for well over 100 years.

Milestones Published: 01 May 2010 Milestone 14 Digital photography is born CCD cameras Ed Gerstner Nature Materials 9, S14–S15 (2010) Cite this article ...

B&W Tek, Inc. is proudly shipping the i-trometer series CCD array, low cost spectrometers. Using a high UV-NIR response wide dynamic range back-thinned CCD array with a low stray light optical bench, ...

The heart of Lincoln Laboratory’s ladar systems is a charge coupled device (CCD) technology similar to the one found in digital cameras. In a camera, when a flash goes off, light reflected from the ...

Despite improvements in the performance of cameras based on CCD (charge-coupled device) arrays, the rate at which they can capture multiple images is typically limited to around a thousand frames ...

QE65000 Spectrometer Has Back-thinned CCD Detector for Low-Light Level Applications. Dunedin, Fla., November 2006 - The QE65000 from Ocean Optics is a high-sensitivity, scientific-grade spectrometer ...

The Quest™ U includes a 2048 x 1 linear CCD array detector with a pixel width of 14 µm and more than 2000 active pixels. When the incident light hits the individual pixels over the CCD, every pixel ...

The CCD arrays also feature greatly improved visible-light sensitivity, which critical in many situations. At the extremely high end, the KAF-16801CE CCD features 16.6 million pixels in a ...

The Glacier ® T series spectrometer available from B&W Tek is a high-resolution, double-pass transmission-based Thermoelectric Cooled (TEC) linear CCD array spectrometer developed exclusively for ...

“This is the biggest charge-coupled device (CCD) array that has ever been built,” Paul O’Connor, senior scientist at Brookhaven Lab’s instrumentation division, said in a press release.