Alacron’s announcement of the new FC 200 was highlighted in the new products section in VSD Magazine's April 11, 2013 edition. Click HERE to access VSD.

“These newest FastVision cameras now offer one of the quietest CMOS sensor designs in the world,” says Dr. Joseph Sgro, CEO of Alacron, Inc. and FastVision, LLC. “Our new FC 200 camera reflects many advantages of this new sensor including low cost and high speed of 2.15 megapixels running at 270 frames per second. It complements our other new camera, the FC 300, which offers 3.2 megapixels and runs at 180 frames per second.”

FastVision and its affiliate, Alacron, announced their newest product, the FastCamera 300 (FC 300) high speed digital camera, built around the latest low noise, high speed CMOS Sensor.

“These newest FastVision cameras now offer one of the lowest noise CMOS sensor designs in the world,” says Dr. Joseph Sgro, CEO of Alacron, Inc. and FastVision, LLC. “Our new FC 300 camera reflects many advantages of this new sensor including low cost and high speed of 3.2 megapixels running at 180 frames per second.”
In an article in the September 2012 edition of VSD Magazine, Sgro explained that the FC 300 camera complements Alacron’s new back-side imager (BSI) camera, also announced today, that features delta doping (DD) and anti-reflective (AR) coating.

“Our technology development effort over the past several years with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Microdevices Laboratory incorporates JPL’s patented delta doping process on the sensor in the FC 300,” Sgro adds. “This combination of JPL’s DD and AR process and the extremely quiet CMOS sensor produces 100 percent fill factor and allows selection of the sensor’s sensitivity to specific wave length, ranging from deep ultraviolet (DUV) to near infrared (NIR).”

See page 17 of the Sept. 2012 Print Edition, or click HERE for the on-line edition.  The following is an excerpt:

"The CCD and CMOS image sensors used in many of today's industrial machine-vision cameras operate in the 400-to-900-nm visible light spectrum. Specialized imagers that operate in the infrared (IR) spectrum have been introduced for applications such as glass inspection, fruit classification, and plastics recycling.

For example, in semiconductor photolithography applications where deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light from high-power lasers with wavelengths from 190 to 370 nm produces 2-nm feature sizes, more precise measurements that can be obtained using UV-based cameras with high quantum efficiency (QE) are desirable. For such applications, very few manufacturers offer CMOS or CCD imagers or cameras that can meet these requirements."

At the Vision 2010 Trade Show in Stuttgart, Germany, Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) showcased a new benchmark for high-resolution image capture with announcement of the KODAK KAI-29050 Image Sensor, the highest resolution CCD image sensor based on Interline Transfer technology. 

"This sensor has the potential to expand our Kodak CCD Line of Smart Cameras," says Dr. Joseph Sgro, CEO and Founder of FastVision.  FastVision CCD Smart Cameras include the FastCameras 34, 105, 205, 215, and 405.

FastVision's Founder and CEO Joseph Sgro, is featured in the July 2010 edition. For more than 20 years Dr. Sgro has been a pioneer in the Machine Vision industry. First by launching and growing a leading Frame Grabber manufacturer, Alacron, Inc; And, in 2002, he started FastVision, LLC, a revolutionary developer and manufacturer of smart, high speed, digital cameras. Click HERE to read the full article.