Company Profile

Catalina Scientific is a software developer, dealer and manufacturer's representative for some of the highest performance CCD cameras used in scientific and industrial applications. Our products include an echelle-type spectrograph system that combines a CCD camera, an innovative cross-dispersing echelle spectrograph and our KestrelSpecTM imaging spectroscopy software. We also supply imaging systems using high-resolution, cooled and uncooled CCD and CMOS cameras for applications in microscopy, biology, astronomy, machine vision and high-speed photography.

Echelle Spectrographs

Our echelle-type spectrographs produce high resolution over the entire UV-NIR spectral region in one image, without scanning. Unlike a standard scanning spectrograph, an echelle has no stepper motor and no moving parts. Just one CCD image is required to cover a wide spectral range because the cross-dispersing optics allow the use of multiple orders, instead of just one order like a standard spectrograph.

KestrelSpecTM Imaging Spectroscopy Software

Our KestrelSpecTM Imaging Spectroscopy software, originally introduced for the Macintosh by Rhea Corporation, has been available for Windows® for over 10 years. The software supports imaging spectroscopy applications using CCD cameras combined with commercially available fixed-grating and scanning spectrographs, as well as our echelle spectrographs.

Imaging Products

Catalina Scientific has been a dealer and representative for various CCD camera manufacturers for 13 years. We supply imaging systems ranging from 16-bit dynamic range, cooled, slow-scan CCD cameras to 1K x 1K CMOS cameras that can provide 150 fps (>7,000 fps @ 128 x 128 ROI) with better than 8-bit dynamic range. We can supply either non-intensified or gated intensified cameras or EMCCD cameras depending upon the application.