PCO Imaging
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| Company type | Aktiengesellschaft |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Emil Ott |
| Headquarters | Kelheim, Germany, subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, Singapore, China |
Area served | worldwide |
| Products | scientific camera systems |
| Website | www |
PCO Imaging (PCO AG) is a developer and manufacturer of camera systems for scientific and industrial applications.[1][2][3]
The company was founded in 1987 by Emil Ott, who worked as a researcher at the Technical University of Munich. During the conducting of scientific measurements with intensified slow scan cameras, he was convinced of the fact that the existing camera standard did not meet the requirements of scientific applications. Therefore, he founded PCO (Pioneers in Cameras and Optoelectronics) to improve the technology of the existing camera systems.[4][5][6] The developed technologies of PCO are since then used for DNA sequencing, machine vision, solar cell quality control, measuring velocity and surveillance alongside to microscopy and further applications.[7][8][9]
