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Meet our Team at LASER World of Photonics in Munich!

Discover the amazing image of Neptune (rotating) taken with C-RED 2 on the SCExAO instrument at the SUBARU Telescope

Discover the Star Product on Optics.org : C-RED 3, a high-speed, smart and SWaP optimized camera showcased at SPIE DCS

Discover C-RED 3 in Laser Focus World's article on SWIR cameras for Surveillance and Security

A glimpse on new biomarkers imaging

Only 2 weeks before SPIE DCS, set up a meeting with our Team !

Visit First Light Imaging at SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing in April 2019!

Visit First Light Imaging at Photonics West next week, booth 1059J!

PRESS RELEASE - SUCCESS STORY: SOFRADIR SNAKE SW TECLESS DETECTOR SELECTED BY FIRST LIGHT IMAGING

"Where ideas are born and Projects grow" - Promotional video for Pays d'Aix

Merry Christmas 2018 from First Light Imaging!

First Light Imaging is proud to deliver 2 C-RED One cameras to the European Southern Observatory

First Light Imaging will be at Photonics West, San Francisco, from February 5 to 7, 2019

Visit FLI at VISION Stuttgart from Nov 6 to 8 and discover C-RED 3, our brand new SWIR TECless camera for industrial applications

First Light Imaging is happy to support the Wavefront sensing (WFS) and control in the VLT/ELT era Workshop

Discover C-RED 2’s updated datasheet with 600FPS in USB and CL option.

First Light Imaging is proud to announce the support of the FUI fund (R&D Ministry fund for collaborative innovation projects) to its future project.

The C-RED One built for the KERNEL Project (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur) is now installed on the Subaru Telescope and coupled with the SCExAO instrument.

Read the Optics.org's newsletter of june 21, with a focus on C-RED 2 running at 600 FPS

First Light Imaging is proud to be a new member of EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium.

Meet First Light Imaging at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Austin, TX, USA, from June 10 to June 12 2018.

First Light Imaging is proud to be a new member of OPSS, the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapour.

Meet First Light Imaging at LASER World of Photonics in Shanghai, from March 14 to March 16 2018!

This year again, First Light Imaging will be at Photonics West in San Francisco from January 30 to February 1, 2018. Join us at the Moscone Center, on Booth 437E, and discover our live demonstration of C-RED 2.

All our team wishes you a Happy New Year 2018 !

ALL OUR TEAM WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS !

Discover C-RED 2's latest User Manual 

This is it! Our first 10 C-RED 2 are on their way to their new homes in Europe, China, USA, Australia

First Light's Technical Advisor Jean-Luc GACH presented his latest scientific paper about Infrared Detectors for Wavefront Sensing at AO4ELT 5 in Tenerife in June 2017. Discover the paper and get the latest results and performances of C-RED One and C-RED 2.

MIRC-X, the 6-telescope beam combination instrument enabling imaging of protoplanetary discs, is now equipped with C-RED One.

Our new camera C-RED 2 is born, it is now a commercial product, and first units are on their way to prestigious customers.

Dr. Philippe Feautrier, Scientific advisor at First Light Imaging and Technical Director at IPAG/CNRS, will participate to SDW (Scientific Detector Workshops). The workshop will take place in Baltimore, USA, at the Space Telescope Science Institute, from September 24 to 29, 2017, and will bring together the scientists and engineers who develop, produce and implement the most advanced imaging sensors used in scientific instrumentation.

Here it is: our final C-RED 2, with more than 400 frames per second and a <30 electrons RON. InGaAs 640 x 512 sensor for SWIR Imaging, smart, compact, ideal for all applications in astronomy, bio-imagery, industry.

Discover the latest pictures of C-RED 2

Discover the latest video of our InGaAs SWIR camera C-RED 2 : Troubled water

Here it is… This is the end of 2 years of (a lot of) hard work, efforts, headaches and commitment from all the team, with wonderful memories all along this adventure.

Here are the pictures of the future shell of C-RED 2

We are very proud and happy to welcome the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, coming to pick up their brand new toy: C-RED One!

10 days to go before LASER WORLD OF PHOTONICS Munich, the international trade fair for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications. First Light Imaging team will be there from June 26 to 29, 2017, on booth B3 240/7, and is looking forward to meeting you.

Dr Philippe FEAUTRIER and Jean-Luc GACH from First Light Imaging will be present at AO4ELT 5 in Puerto de la Cruz, Canary Island, from June 25 to 30, 2017.

First Light Imaging will be present at LASER WORLD OF PHOTONICS, the international trade fair for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications, from June 26 to 29, 2017.

After 6 years of existence, it was time for us to move our office for a bigger one, as the business grows and so does the team :)

Dr Philippe Feautrier presented his latest scientific paper about C-RED One and C-RED 2 at SPIE DCS (Defense and Commercial Sensing) in April 2017.

Meet First Light Imaging at SPIE Commercial Sensing and Imaging. This conference is part of the SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing show, taking place from April 10 to 13, 2017, at the Anaheim Convention Center, California, USA.

C-RED 2 is equipped with a 640 x 512 InGaAs sensor operating in the SWIR (Short Wave Infrared), from 0.9 to 1.7 µm, with a very good Quantum Efficiency over 70%.

Discover C-RED 2’s new provisional datasheet, with preliminary performances:

Meet First Light Imaging today at IPEM, the International Private Equity Market in Cannes!

Meet First Light Imaging at Photonics West, in San Francisco Moscone Center, from January 30 to February 2, 2017.

In 2017, join the SWIR Revolution with First Light Imaging! All our team wishes you a Happy New Year!

Check out the latest pictures of C-RED One, and the provisional shell.