Short Wave Infrared Enhances Machine Vision

摘要

Short wave infrared (SWIR) machine vision imaging is a key tool in manufacturing and industrial processes to measure, monitor, control or otherwise manage the reliable and quality-conforming production of goods that do not respond well to standard range machine vision cameras. SWIR imaging adds more solution tools to boost the core machine vision concept "I can control that which I can reliably measure" and aid a digital pass /fail decision on a given inspected process. The beauty of the SWIR camera is that the data feels familiar to a standard black and white signal in both observed images as well as in the digital data stream, and since the underlying silicon and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) sensors are both photoelectric effect detectors, speedy results are the norm.