Eurosatory 2014: PHOTONIS Night Vision Announces INTENS

PHOTONIS, a world leader in Night Vision Sensor Innovations yesterday announced the release of its new superior performance INTENS Image Intensifier (I2). The new tube offers extended bandwidth sensitivity (from 400-1000nm) and improved sensitivity to 100μlx (Night Level 6). These innovations provide a 40% increase in detection, recognition, and identification (DRI) over previous tubes. INTENS is an intensifier well-suited for Multi-Mission Night Vision; ideal for use in the darkest mission conditions including deep mountain valleys and jungle terrain.

Detection, recognition and identification of objects and persons in a hostile environment are essential to all deployed forces. Already field proven, INTENS offers end-users access to a superior performance I2 Tube that is an easily deployed solution for operations in extreme darkness. INTENS comes standard equipped with a state-of-the-art Auto-Gating power supply for operations in very dynamic light conditions and a high contrast green P22 phosphor. Like other PHOTONIS I2s, the INTENS is mission ready for integration into equipment of the world’s leading suppliers of optical systems.

Across the complete set of its specifications; INTENS pairs the latest in performance and stability with cutting-edge technologies that make the quantum efficiency over the complete visible light spectrum superior to other solutions. A Figure of Merit (FOM) of typically 2,000 and a signal to noise ratio of 30 is offered with an unrivalled broadband sensitivity from the UV to the IR part of the spectrum. Combined with a very small HALO effect, the result is very high contrast and fast imaging intensifier tube with an operational lifetime well over 10,000 hours. With INTENS, PHOTONIS has transformed market demands into a brand new technology to provide end-users with the best performance I2 Tube available today.

PHOTONIS President and CEO, Goossen Boers stated, “PHOTONIS has provided over 800,000 combat proven XD-4TM and XR-5TM Image Intensifier Tubes (I2 Tubes ) to Armed Forces, Police and Special Forces, Security Services, Defence Industry, and government agencies as well as OEMs and integrators worldwide. The most crucial feedback from the end-users of Image Intensifier Tubes worldwide has been the demand for superior performance Image Intensifier Tubes.” He notes that while many customers felt that existing technologies couldn’t be improved, they also felt such technologies could not meet their ever-increasing requirement. “INTENSTM is the result of PHOTONIS’ continual commitment to the investment; research and development in low light technologies.”