The Paris-based company designs and manufactures SWIR imaging sensors and modules based upon InGaAs focal plane arrays. It produces SWIR (shortwave IR) imaging modules and sensors, including large format shortwave sensors with a small pixel pitch.
New Imaging Technologies also has a portfolio of wide dynamic range patents and manufactures a SWIR HD1080 array and associated module at a pixel size of 8µm.
Lynred has a portfolio of IR detectors, covering the electromagnetic spectrum from near to very far IR. It designs and manufactures IR technologies for commercial, defence and aerospace applications. The company said that the acquisition will expand its portfolio to offer “large format SWIR sensors with advanced capabilities for applications in markets where AI, deep learning and multispectral imaging are driving growth”.
It is also expected to shorten time to market for SWIR products, through shared complementary industrial supply chains and technical skills, said the company. New Imaging Technologies has invested in a manufacturing line of InGaAs sensors (pictured) using its proprietary technology.
“The global market for SWIR imaging for machine vision is growing fast, as well as for defence applications, such as laser detection and in new space,” said Hervé Bouaziz, executive president at Lynred.
In addition, investment in the company’s Campus project, which includes the construction of clean rooms will double current capacity.
Both companies are exhibiting at Vision Stuttgart in Germany this week (8-10 October), booth #8C46, and AUSA (Association of the United States Army) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington DC (14-16 October), booth #8015.
