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Buying Image Sensors

Top-level product categories: icon detectors and measurements, icon vision, displays and imaging

Related product category: cameras

Image sensors (imaging sensors) are photodetectors with spatial resolution used for imaging purposes. Common image sensors are of CMOS and CCD type, and are used in a wide range of cameras, from consumer electronics to scientific and industrial imaging systems.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article image sensors

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying image sensors. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for image sensors. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Image Sensors

20 suppliers for image sensors are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Optics, Metrology, and Photonics

Schäfter + Kirchhoff
Kieler Str. 212
22525 Hamburg
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.315)!

image sensors

We offer line scan cameras with USB 3.0, GiGE or GiGE Vision interface. We also offer complete scanner systems like the corrosion inspector (measurement and evaluation of corrosion phenomena on coated test plates).

Product-specific web page
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.311) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 627)!

image sensors

Hamamatsu Photonics offer 200 standard linear and area image sensors covering the short wavelength infrared (SWIR), near infrared (NIR), visible (VIS), ultraviolet (UV), and X-ray regions. With a broad selection from high speed, high sensitivity to wide dynamic range, our image sensors are suitable for different applications including spectroscopy analysis using spectrometers, industrial imaging such as machine vision cameras, microscopy, and distance measurements. We also provide supporting electronics such as easy-to-use driver circuits for sensor evaluation and driver modules for OEMs. Customizations are available for specific applications and requirements.

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Other Suppliers

ams AG
Austria
ANDANTA GmbH
Germany
Asue Co., Ltd.
Vietnam
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B & H Foto & Electronics Corp.
United States
Bernhard Halle Nachfolger GmbH
Germany
Boston Electronics Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
Chunghwa Leading Photonics Tech (CLPT)
Taiwan, Republic of China
iC-Haus Germany
Germany
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
Profile page  Website  
LUCID Vision Labs, Inc.
Canada
Micro Photon Devices
Italy
New England Photoconductor
United States
New Imaging Technologies (NIT)
France
ProxiVision GmbH
Germany
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
Japan
Stanford Computer Optics, Inc
United States
Teledyne DALSA Headquarters
Canada
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Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan

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