| 29.07.2010 |
The LSM Upgrade Kit is now also available for the Olympus FluoView FV1000MPE with NDD detection allowing deep tissue FLIM imaging. For details, please see the technical note |
| 25.06.2010 |
A new software version for the NanoHarp 250 has been released. The new software version 3.0 now supports Windows Vista und Windows 7 including x64 version and features a new GUI layout of the software as well as some other notable improvements.  Read the full press release (PDF file, 91kB) 
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| 05.05.2010 |
PicoQuant and the Brookhavan National Laboratory have successfully hosted a joint hands-on workshop on "Making Single Molecule Fluorescence (Lifetime) Measurements Simple". The workshop was held on April 26-28, 2010 at the premises of the Brookhavan National Laboratory and was a big success. Nearly 50 people attended the course and enjoyed lectures and hands-on experiments. |
| 23.03.2010 |
PicoQuant has announced the new automated fluorescence lifetime spectrometer FluoTime 300 "Easy Tau" at the analytica exhibition in Munich. |
| 04.03.2010 |
A new technical note is available for download:
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| 23.02.2010 |
The 2nd European Short Course on "Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from February 16 - 18, 2010. This course was considered by all participants as a great and inspiring event. Altogether more than 40 people from universities and industrie from 16 different countries participated. They attended 6 lectures and 6 hands-on experiment sessions with 4 different instruments from 3 companies, covering different methods and procedures in (time-resolved) fluorescence microscopy such as FLIM, FLIM-FRET, FCS (auto- and cross correlation), FLCS, single molecule microscopy and data analysis. |
| 17.02.2010 |
New and improved picosecond pulsed diode laser heads emitting around 965 nm and 485 nm are now available. |
| 26.01.2010 |
PicoQuant has again awarded a "Young Investigator Award" at the session on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging" during the BIOS / Photonics West show. The price was awarded to Ryan A. Colyer (University of California), Matthew D. Lew (Stanford University) and Steffen J. Sahl (MPI Göttingen). |
| 12.01.2010 |
A high power version of the green picosecond pulsed diode laser ("LDH-P-FA-530B") is now available with up to 2 mW average output power at 40 MHz repetition rate. |
| 22.12.2009 |
Three new application notes are available for download:
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| 16.11.2008 |
The 7th European Short Course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from November 09 - 12, 2009. Altogether more than 50 people from universities and industrie from 16 different countries participated. They attended 12 lectures and 5 hands-on experiment sessions with 7 different instruments from 3 companies, covering different methods and procedures in fluorescence spectroscopy. |
| 26.10.2009 |
Cooled PMTs for reduced dark counts as well as an extended red-sensitive PMT (300 nm - 900 nm) are now available. |
| 05.10.2009 |
A new SymPhoTime version (V 5.1.3) is now available. |
| 21.09.2009 |
The International Workshop on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences" organized by PicoQuant GmbH celebrated its 15th anniversary this year. Overall, the 15th workshop was an outstanding event with more than 170 participants from all over the world. It was celebrated by opening one afternoon session to the public. This "open afternoon", which attracted more than 40 additional listeners from the local campus, included as a highlight a plenary talk given by the 2009 Otto-Hahn-Preis winner Stefan W. Hell (MPI Göttingen, Germany) about "Far-field optical nanoscopy". The participants enjoyed additional plenary lectures, given by Toshio Yanagida (University of Osaka, Japan) and W.E. Moerner (University of Stanford, USA) as well as 44 highly up-to-date talks. Latest results where discussed during two poster sessions with more than 70 Posters. Read the full press release (PDF file, 103kB) |
| 25.08.2009 |
A new software version for the HydraHarp 400 has been released. The new software version 1.2 supports devices with up to 8 input channels and features an improved online ("real-time") - correlator for FCS experiments in the T2 mode. The software now also includes an indicator for critical measurement conditions such as pile-up or incorrect divider settings and already supports Windows 7. |
| 13.08.2009 |
The LSM Upgrade Kit now also supports the Nikon A1. |
| 06.08.2009 |
A new edition of the MicroTime 200 brochure is now available for download. |
| 20.07.2009 |
Laser heads emitting around 450 nm, 635 nm and 1310 nm are now available. |
| 17.07.2009 |
A special multichip laser module for the PDL 828 "Sepia II" has been released. The SML 828 synchronizes and combines the emission from four individual laser diodes into a common multimode fibre. In that way picosecond pulses are generated at a much higher power than available from a standard laser head. |
| 14.07.2009 |
The Multichannel Picosecond Event Timer & TCSPC Module HydraHarp 400 is now available with up to 8 channels with multi-stop capability and a Time-Tagged Time-Resolved mode with an unlimited measurement range at full resolution. |
| 10.06.2009 |
A new SymPhoTime version (V 5.1.2) is now available and includes improved FCS fitting and error analysis features. |
| 08.06.2009 |
Laser heads emitting around 1080 nm and 1120 nm are now available in pulsed as well as dual mode operation. |
| 26.05.2009 |
A new green (531 ± 3 nm) picosecond pulsed diode laser head is now available. The LDH-P-FA-530 can work at any repetition rate between 10 kHz and 40 MHz and offers pulse widths <100 ps. It emits from a FC/APC fibre connector and reaches 1 mW average output power at 40 MHz repetition rate. It can be controlled by the PDL 828 'Sepia II', the PDL 800-D and the PDL 800-B. |
| 04.05.2009 |
A new software version for the PicoHarp 300 has been released. The new software version 2.3 features an improved online ("real-time") - correlator for FCS that now also supports the T2 mode. The maximum measurement time in histogrammer mode has been extended to 100 hours and the software now includes an indicator for critical measurement conditions such as pile-up or incorrect divider settings. |
| 17.03.2009 |
FluoFit V4.4 is now available and includes an improved graphical export and is fully compatible to Windows Vista. |
| 09.03.2009 |
The PLS 255 is now available, emitting around 255 nm with up to 1 µW average power at 10 MHz repetition rate. |
| 23.02.2009 |
The 1st European Short Course on "Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from February 17 - 19, 2009. This course was considered by all participants as a great and inspiring event. Altogether more than 40 people from universities and industrie from 15 different countries participated. They attended 6 lectures and 6 hands-on experiment sessions with 4 different instruments from 3 companies, covering different methods and procedures in (time-resolved) fluorescence microscopy such as FLIM, FLIM-FRET, FCS (auto- and cross correlation), FLCS, single molecule spectroscopy and data analysis. Due to the big success, a second course is planned for early 2010. |
| 10.02.2009 |
A new software version for the TimeHarp 200 has been released. The new version 6.1 provides several new features, notably a new real-time correlator for Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), calculating autocorrelations and crosscorrelation simultaneously. It also supports control for further monochromator models, permitting the automated recording of Time-Resolved Emission Spectra (TRES). The new version also provides new device drivers for the latest 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. |
| 25.01.2009 |
PicoQuant has again awarded a "Young Investigator Award" at the session on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging" during the BIOS / Photonics West show. The price was awarded to Sigrun Henkenjohann (University of Bielefeld), Nathan P. Wells (Los Alamos National Laboratories) and Jonas Fölling (MPI Göttingen). |
| 24.01.2009 |
PicoQuant and the Center for Biophotonics at UC Davis (CBST) have successfully hosted a joint hands-on workshop on "Making Single Molecule Fluorescence (Lifetime) Measurements Simple" for the fourth time. The workshop was held on January 22-23, 2009 at the premises of the CBST and was a big success. Nearly 40 people attended the course and enjoyed lectures and hands-on experiments. |
| 20.01.2009 |
A new SymPhoTime version (V 5.0) is now available and includes several new features such as an online-TCSPC histogramming during data acquisition and the possibility to reconstruct an instrument response function (IRF) from a measured decay curve. The new version also fully supports the HydraHarp 400 for data acquisition and analysis. |
| 12.12.2008 |
Laser heads at 485 nm are now available for the FSL 500 fast switched laser driver and the MDL 300 modulated laser driver. |
| 07.11.2008 |
The 6th European Short Course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from October 27 - 31, 2008. Altogether more than 70 people from universities and industrie from 23 different countries participated. They attended 14 lectures and 6 hands-on experiment sessions with 8 different instruments from 4 companies, covering different methods and procedures in fluorescence spectroscopy. |
| 09.10.2008 |
New technical note available for download:
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| 23.09.2008 |
Once again and now for the 14th time PicoQuant has invited the top researches working in the field of Single Molecule Spectroscopy to come together in Berlin for the International Workshop on "Single Molecule Detection and Ultrasensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences". This workshop was a great success with 101 researchers participating and enjoying 37 talks and 32 posters. |
| 08.09.2008 |
The LDH 485 is now available with up to 2 mW average power at 40 MHz repetition rate. |
| 03.07.2008 |
The LDH 485 is now available. The new laser head emits around 485 nm with pulsewidths less than 90 ps and can generate more than 1 mW average power at 40 MHz repetition rate. |
| 27.06.2008 |
New technical notes available for download:
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| 14.04.2008 |
The PLS 570 is now available at offers up to 3 µW average power at 10 MHz repetition rate. |
| 11.04.2008 |
The Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Correlation Software SymPhoTime is now available in a new version. SymPhoTime V. 4.7 includes the first official release of a completely new developed scripting language that allow users to implement analysis techniques which are not part of the standard SymPhoTime environment. Further important improvements among others are the extension of the visalization functions during the measurements ("online-FCS") and an increase of the correlation speed for FCS and FLCS. |
| 01.04.2008 |
PicoQuant has released the HydraHarp 400 - a Multichannel Picosecond Event Timer & TCSPC Module. This outstanding and unique system features a time resolution down to 1 picosecond, up to 4 independent but synchronized input channels with multi-stop capability and a Time-Tagged Time-Resolved mode with an unlimited measurement range at full resolution. The system is first presented at the Analytica 2008 show in Munich. |
| 01.04.2008 |
PicoQuant GmbH is proud to announce that we have reached a new quality of sales support in North America. As a leading supplier of picosecond diode lasers, photon counting instrumentation, and time-resolved fluorescence systems, we consider the North American market to be very important. Therefore, we decided to focus our activities in a new legal entity. Starting April 1st, 2008 PicoQuant Photonics North America Inc. (PQPI) starts its operation allowing closer contact with our scientific and OEM customers. You will find all contact details at: www.picoquant-usa.com |
| 22.01.2008 |
PicoQuant has awarded a "Young Investigator Award" at the session on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging" during the BIOS / Photonics West show. The price was awarded to Andrea M. Armani from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). The award will again be awarded in 2009. |
| 21.01.2008 |
PicoQuant and the Center for Biophotonics at UC Davis (CBST) have successfully hosted a joint hands-on workshop on "Making Single Molecule Fluorescence (Lifetime) Measurements Simple" for the third time. The workshop was held on January 17-18, 2008 at the premises of the CBST and was a big success. Nearly 50 people attended the course and enjoyed lectures and hands-on experiments. |
| 19.01.2008 |
The compatibility of the LSM Upgrade Kit has been further expanded. Upgrades of the Olympus FluoView 1000 with the new multi-combiner system are now also possible. |
