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SWIR Cameras for Machine Vision

SWIR cameras allow your machine vision system to see through opaque materials. They detect moisture, check fill levels, and identify internal defects, ensuring unbeatable quality control.

SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) machine vision operates in a wavelength range (typically 900 to 1700 nm) that is invisible to the human eye. Unlike thermography, which detects emitted heat, SWIR technology works with reflected light, revealing unique material properties that are impossible to capture with conventional cameras.

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SWIR Cameras for Machine Vision

SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) machine vision operates in a wavelength range (typically 900 to 1700 nm) that is invisible to the human eye. Unlike thermography, which detects emitted heat, SWIR technology works with reflected light, revealing unique material properties that are impossible to capture with conventional cameras.

The result is high-contrast, high-resolution images that allow us to “see through” certain materials and analyze their chemical composition.


Key Benefits of SWIR Imaging for Industry

  • Seeing through materials: Silicon and many opaque plastics become translucent in the SWIR spectrum. This allows for the inspection of the interior of electronic components or packaging without having to open them.
  • Moisture Detection: Water strongly absorbs SWIR light at specific wavelengths. This causes damp areas to appear very dark, allowing for the measurement of moisture levels or the detection of water where it shouldn’t be.
  • Material differentiation: Substances that appear identical in the visible spectrum (for example, sugar and salt) have completely different “signatures” in SWIR, allowing for their precise classification.
  • Fill Level Inspection: You can check the fill level of liquids or powders inside opaque plastic containers, completely ignoring any labels or markings on the outside.
  • Adverse conditions: SWIR light penetrates smoke, fog, or dust better than visible light, providing clear vision in harsh industrial environments.
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ace 2 X visSWIR cameras offer superior image quality in both the visible and shortwave infrared spectra. Compact and cost-effective, they excel in applications such as penetrating complex structures or detecting hidden objects, where conventional SWIR cameras are too large or expensive.
Basler ace 2 X visSWIR

ace 2 X visSWIR cameras offer superior image quality in both the visible and shortwave infrared spectra.

Xenics XSW 320 Gated series is the SWIR infrared vision camera module series for short exposures, with an unbeatable design for Machines Vision and security applications.
Xenics XSW 320 Gated

Xenics XSW 320 Gated series is the SWIR infrared vision camera module series for short exposures, with an unbeatable design for Machines Vision and security applications.

Xenics XSL SQ series is the camera module series that offers high resolution SWIR shortwave infrared line scan imaging with an unbeatable design for use in Machine Vision applications or process monitoring.
Xenics XSL SQ

The Xenics XSLSQseries is a line of camera modules that provide high-resolution short-wave infrared (SWIR) line-scan images.

Xenics XSL R

The Xenics XSL R series is the rectangular camera module series that provides SWIR shortwave infrared line-scan imaging.

Xenics XSW 640

Xenics XSW 640 series is Xenics’ small size, high performance and high resolution SWIR infrared vision camera module series.

Xenics Manx SQ

The Xenics Manx SQ series is the world’s fastest SWIR infrared line-scan camera series designed for applications.

he Xenics Wildcat 640 camera series is a high-performance camera series with low noise, high dynamic range and high power, is optimal for SWIR hyperspectral imaging and is specially designed for semiconductor inspection and laser beam analysis.
Xenics Wildcat 640

Xenics’ high-performance Wildcat 640 camera series with low noise, high dynamic range and high power.

The Xenics Cheetah 640 series is the best and fastest high resolution SWIR infrared vision imaging camera series on the market. These Xenics cameras feature the company's proprietary InGaAs linear sensor and offer a resolution of 640 x 512 pixels and a CameraLink interface
Xenics Cheetah 640

The Xenics Cheetah 640 series is the best and fastest high resolution SWIR infrared vision imaging camera series on the market.

Xenics Lynx SQ

SWIR linear infrared vision cameras designed for demanding machine vision applications due to their ease of use, compact design, and small size.

The Bobcat 320 Gated camera series from Xenics is a series of SWIR infrared vision cameras that thanks to its easy handling, compact design and small dimensions is perfectly suited for material inspection in volume markets where cost management is paramount, such as laser beam analysis, the sorting and recycling industry, or the investigation of defects inside silicon semiconductor materials.
Xenics Bobcat Gated

SWIR infrared camera that is ideally suited for material inspection in high-volume markets where cost management is paramount

Xenics Bobcat 640

The Xenics Bobcat 640 series consists of high-resolution SWIR infrared cameras that are easy to use.

Xenics Bobcat 320

The Xenics Bobcat 320 series of SWIR infrared vision cameras from Xenics are easy to use, compact in design and small in size.

The Xenics Lynx R camera series is a series of linear SWIR infrared vision cameras specially designed for demanding machine vision applications, due to their easy handling, compact design and small dimensions.
Xenics Lynx R

The Xenics Lynx R camera series is a series of linear SWIR infrared vision cameras designed for demanding machine vision applications.