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Excelitas pco.dimax cs High-Speed Cameras

The pco.dimax cs series is purpose-built for demanding environments such as automotive safety testing. With frame rates exceeding 2,000 fps and resolutions up to 4 megapixels, these cameras deliver outstanding light sensitivity, excellent image quality, and superior color fidelity. Their compact, lightweight, and rugged construction makes them equally suited for on-board and off-board crash test applications.

Available in multiple models with varying resolutions, the pco.dimax cs series offers secure trigger and synchronization modes, HD-SDI output, automatic image calibration, integrated lens control, and a quick-change lens adapter. These features make them ideal for a wide range of automotive safety and research applications, including airbag behavior studies, crash and sled testing, high-velocity impact analysis, spray imaging, fuel injection testing, and tensile strength evaluations.

Available Models 

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pco.dimax 3.6 ST Camera

The pco.dimax 3.6 ST high-speed camera offers a unique platform of streaming cameras that enables clear images with a recording speed of over 2000 fps at a full resolution of 3.6 MPixel. It features a Camera Link HS data interface (CLHS FOL) that guarantees real-time, uncompressed, robust 10-bit data transmission over 8x10Gb optical fiber to maintain lossless image details. The pco.dimax 3.6 ST is the ideal camera for a wide range of applications, including industrial, high-speed, scientific, and aerospace.
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pco.dimax cs3 Camera

The pco.dimax cs3 camera offers outstanding image quality resulting from its exceptional light sensitivity making it ideal for precise analysis and measurements. With fast frame rates of up to 1603 fps at a high resolution of 1920 x 1440 pixels, this high-speed camera features intuitive control software that enables easy playback and export of recorded slow motion video sequences. Its multiple lens mounts (including electronic lens control), HD-SDI video output and automatic image calibration makes the pco.dimax cs3 camera a versatile and powerful solution for demanding car safety applications.
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    pco.dimax cs1 Camera

    The pco.dimax cs1 camera provides excellent light sensitivity and outstanding image quality ideal for precise analysis and measurements. This high-speed camera offers fast frame rates of up to 3086 fps at a high resolution of 1296 x 1024 pixels. Featuring intuitive control software, the pco.dimax cs1 enables easy playback and export of recorded slow motion video sequences. Its multiple lens mounts (including electronic lens control), HD-SDI video output and automatic image calibration make the pco.dimax cs1 camera a versatile and powerful solution for demanding car safety applications. 
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      pco.dimax cs1 Camera

      The pco.dimax cs1 camera provides excellent light sensitivity and outstanding image quality ideal for precise analysis and measurements. This high-speed camera offers fast frame rates of up to 3086 fps at a high resolution of 1296 x 1024 pixels. Featuring intuitive control software, the pco.dimax cs1 enables easy playback and export of recorded slow motion video sequences. Its multiple lens mounts (including electronic lens control), HD-SDI video output and automatic image calibration make the pco.dimax cs1 camera a versatile and powerful solution for demanding car safety applications. 
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        pco.dimax cs4 Camera

        The pco.dimax cs4 high-speed camera provides excellent light sensitivity, outstanding image quality and exceptional color rendering ideal for precise image analysis and measurements. With fast frame rates of up to 1102 fps at a high resolution of 2016 x 2016 pixels, this high-speed camera features intuitive control software that enables easy playback and export of recorded slow motion video sequences. It features multiple lens mounts (including electronic lens control), HD-SDI video output and automatic image calibration which make the pco.dimax cs4 camera a versatile and powerful solution for demanding car safety applications.

        Excelitas & Wilco Imaging

        Wilco Imaging is proud to partner with Excelitas Technologies, a globally respected leader in photonic innovation. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Excelitas specializes in high-performance sensing, detection, optics, imaging, and specialty illumination—serving markets ranging from life sciences and advanced industrial to aerospace, semiconductor, and avionics 

        This collaboration unites Wilco Imaging’s deep expertise in machine-vision systems with Excelitas’s proven track record in engineering-driven solutions. Excelitas excels at delivering custom, OEM-oriented photonic systems—working closely with clients early in their design cycles to accelerate time-to-market and support unique system requirements 
        A pivotal facet of this partnership is the integration of the renowned PCO high-performance camera brand into Excelitas’s portfolio via its acquisition of PCO AG in 2021. PCO brings a legacy of sCMOS innovation and imaging excellence—spanning scientific, industrial, and high-speed applications—that complements Wilco Imaging’s advanced vision capabilities perfectly.

        Together, Wilco Imaging and Excelitas deliver end-to-end imaging excellence: pairing cutting-edge camera hardware—deep UV to SWIR, high-speed, and high-res—with Wilco’s tailored, application-specific system integration. The result? A powerful, unified solution that accelerates industrial vision performance, reliability, and ROI.