For all these packages Laird Thermal Systems manufactures several different series of thermoelectric coolers:
The OptoTEC™ OTX/HTX Series miniature thermoelectric cooler. Designed for lower current and lower heat-pumping applications, the OptoTEC™ OTX/HTX Series Series keeps the laser diode operating temperature stable at around 25+/-0.5°C, achieving a temperature accuracy of ±0.01°C.
The tiny micromirrors are placed on a semiconductor chip, known as a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD). This technology can be found in several industries ranging from Head-up displays and Smart headlights in the automotive market, Smartphones and other display and projection applications to advanced light control in 3D printing.
Digital light processors employ a laser light source and millions of tiny mirrors to produce vibrant, high-resolution images for a wide variety of industries and applications. It is critical to maintain an optimum operating temperature during use to prevent degradation of the digital light processing technology. Active cooling solutions utilizing thermoelectric coolers can provide digital light processors thermal management in a wide range of high temperature applications.
Machine Vision can be found in inspection systems where cameras capture and interpret images of a specific process or activity. A number of emerging applications also take advantage of machine vision technology such as artificial intelligence (facial recognition) and collision detection for the next generation of vehicles, robotics and drones.
Machine vision is the replacement of human examination, assessment and decision-making with video hardware and software systems. The technology is often used for vision inspection, quality control, robotics, wire bonding and down-hole applications where machine vision systems obtain data from analyzing images of a specific process or activity.
For nearly 50 years CCD (charge-coupled device) sensors and CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors have competed on cost and performance in a wide range of digital imaging applications. Peltier coolers (thermoelectric coolers) have cooled both technologies when the requirement demanded high-resolution images. Design engineers opted to use CCD’s for astrophotography, super-resolution microscopy, x-ray crystallography, and spectrophotometric assays. On the other hand, CMOS sensors made inexpensive digital photography a reality.
The ability to rapidly provide high quality images makes CMOS Sensors useful in machine vision & learning applications as well as object detection & recognition. Examples of these applications are machine vision for robots & drones, optical character recognition, barcode readers, scanners, astronomical and satellite photography and the enhancement of radar images for weather forecasting. CMOS Sensors also enable capturing of high-resolution images in light spectrums that are not visible to the human eye, which is particularly useful in high-end scientific cameras.
This product has reached end of production and is available on a limited basis only. This product series has been replaced with the improved ThermaTEC HTX Series product offering. Consider using 387007122 / HTX20-65-F2A-1312-11-W2.25 ThermaTEC HTX Series module as a replacement.
This product has reached end of production and is available on a limited basis only. This product series has been replaced with the improved ThermaTEC HTX Series product offering. Consider using 387007120 / HTX20-31-F2A-0909-11-W2.25 ThermaTEC HTX Series module as a replacement.
This product has reached end of production and is available on a limited basis only. This product series has been replaced with the improved ThermaTEC HTX Series product offering. Consider using 387007108 / HTX12-65-F2A-1312-11-W2.25 ThermaTEC HTX Series module as a replacement.
