High-performance SWIR Image Sensor

IMX992 and IMX993 SWIR image sensors are equipped with Sony’s original SenSWIR technology to offer even higher resolution and higher performance than comparable sensors. The small pixel size of 3.45μm achieves high resolution even with their compact size. Noise reduction mode can be enabled as the environment requires, allowing for vivid imaging even of tiny objects. These sensors use digital output to achieve high functionality and, as they are compatible with both SLVS and MIPI interfaces, camera settings are simplified and excellent flexibility in parts selection is possible.

Both of these high-performance SWIR image sensors offer precision and meet a variety of needs in industrial inspection, identification, and measurement applications, helping to boost productivity.

The IMX992 and IMX993 have approximately 5.32 and 3.21 megapixels respectively, making them the highest-resolution SWIR image sensors in the industry.*1 To achieve this, Sony has used its original SenSWIR technology to develop a new small pixel size of 3.45 μm. The 5-megapixel-class resolution and cell-sized 3.45-μm pixel specifications are widely used in C-mount-sized general global shutter image sensors, these are the first industrial SWIR image sensors to achieve equivalent specifications.

Through high-resolution photography, these sensors offer vivid imaging even of tiny subjects, greatly improving precision in inspection and measurement applications that use SWIR-range light. They can also expand the imaging area while maintaining the same resolution, which is expected to improve efficiency through one-time large-scale imaging.