| 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. |
| 13.12.2007 |
The upright time-resolved confocal fluorescence microscope MicroTime 100 has been completely redesigned. The new designed uses optical fibres for the laser coupling as well as the connection of the photon counting detectors. In that way a variety of different excitation sources as well as detector configurations can be realized. |
| 19.11.2007 |
A new version of the PicoHarp 300 operating software is now available (Version 2.2). This version now supports Windows Vista x64 edition. |
| 07.11.2007 |
The 5th European Short Course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from October 29 - November 2, 2007. 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. |
| 24.09.2007 |
Once again and now for the 13th 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 89 attendees, 38 exciting talks and 30 posters. The 14th workshop will be held on September 17-19, 2008 in Berlin. |
| 14.08.2007 |
In collaboration with BESSY we are now offering a free LabVIEW Software for the PicoHarp300 acting as an EPICS Server for fill pattern monitoring in electron storage rings. |
| 10.07.2007 |
A joint workshop between PicoQuant GmbH and the Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technologies at the University of North Texas Health Science Center will be held on August 30th. The workshop will deal with "Advanced Time-Domain Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy (FLIM, FRET, FCS & SMD)" and includes lectures as well as product demonstrations. |
| 06.07.2007 |
The Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Correlation Software SymPhoTime is now available in a new version. SymPhoTime V. 4.3 includes a prerelease of a completely new developed scripting language that allow users to implement analysis techniques which are not part of the standard SymPhoTime environment. |
| 12.06.2007 |
At this years LASER 2007 exhibition in Munich, PicoQuant presented several new products, including the PDL 800-D - a single channel picosecond diode laser driver with cw option as well as the Wafercheck 150 - a semiconductor wafer analyser based on time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements. |
| 26.03.2007 |
FluoPlot - a software to visualise / analyse Time-Resolved Emission Spectra (TRES) is now available and will be delivered with each FluoTime 200 system. |
| 13.02.2007 |
The Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Correlation Software SymPhoTime is now available in a new version. The new version 4.2 now supports Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy (FLCS), Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy using pulsed-interleaved excitation (PIE-FCS), multi point measurements and total correlation in the T2-Mode of the PicoHarp 300
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| 01.02.2007 |
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 second time. The workshop was held on January 18-19, 2007 at the premises of the CBST and was a big success. More than 50 people attended the course and enjoyed lectures and hands-on experiments. |
| 21.01.2007 |
PicoQuant has awarded a "Young Investigator Award" at the session on "Ultrasensitive and single-molecule detection technologies" at the 2007 SPIE Photonics West / BIOS conference. Due to the excellent quality of the talks, the price was finally split and awarded to H.R.C. Dietrich (TU Delft) and M.I. Rudenko (Univ. of California/Santa Cruz). |
| 20.01.2007 |
The 4-channel universal detector router PHR 800 for the PicoHarp 300 (from hardware revision 2.0) is now available. The detector supports almost any detector signal including of course SPADs, PMTs and MCP-PMTs. |
| 29.11.2006 |
The range of available pulsed LEDs has again been extended. PicoQuant now offers pulsed LEDs between 260 and 340 nm in 10 nm steps. |
| 07.11.2006 |
The 4th European Short Course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" was held in Berlin, Adlershof from October 30- November 3, 2006. Altogether 80 people from Universities and Industrie from more than 20 countries participated in this successful event, which consisted of 15 lectures and an experimental hands-on session with 10 different instruments from 5 companies.. |
| 20.10.2006 |
A new version of FluoFit is now available. The version 4.2 now includes maximum likelikood estimation. |
| 18.10.2006 |
A new version of the PicoHarp 300 operating software is now available. This version now includes an online-FCS correlator ! |
| 28.09.2006 |
The lasers of the LDH-Series are now available with dual operation mode: cw and pulsed. This feature is only available with the PDL 828 "Sepia II" |
| 26.09.2006 |
Once again and now for the 12th 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 100 attendees, 36 exciting talks and 35 posters. The 13th workshop will be held on September 19-21, 2007 in Berlin. |
| 20.07.2006 |
Please visit our updated bibliography. You will find a list of papers mentioning PicoQuant devices and/or written by us. The references are sorted by year of publishing and journal/book name; they are linked to the website of the appropriate publisher. |
| 19.07.2006 |
A new version of the TimeHarp 200 operating software is now available. This version now includes an online-FCS correlator ! |
| 19.06.2006 |
The range of available pulsed LEDs has again been extended. PicoQuant does now also offer a PLS at 265 nm. |
| 08.06.2006 |
A new software version for the NanoHarp 250 has been released. The new software version improves the features of the programmable trigger output. |
| 19.05.2006 |
PicoQuant as announced a Young Investigator award for the session on “ultrasensitive and single- molecule detection technologies (BO127)“ at next year's SPIE Photonics West / BIOS conference (San Jose, January 20-25, 2007). |
| 24.04.2006 |
PicoQuant as released a new brochure about the Time-resolved Confocal Fluorescence Microscope MicroTime 200. The brochure gives a detailed description about this unique and powerful instrument capable of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging at single molecule detection sensitivity. The 34-page publication includes various method- and application examples including Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Foerster Resonance Energy Transfer and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. The brochure is available as a free copy upon request. |
| 20.04.2006 |
The LDH 375 is now available with higher output power of up to 3 mW at 40 MHz repetition rate. |
| 28.02.2006 |
The Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Correlation Software SymPhoTime (SW-MT) is now available in a new version. The new version 4.1.1 now supports the PicoHarp 300 TCSPC module and has some exciting new features like FCS fitting and PIE-FRET analysis. |
| 13.02.2006 |
PicoQuant and the Center for Biophotonics at UC Davis (CBST) successfully hosted a joint hands-on workshop on "Making Single Molecule Fluorescence (Lifetime) Measurements Simple". The workshop was held on January 19-20, 2006 at the premises of the CBST and was a real success. More than 50 people attended the course and enjoyed lectures and hands-on experiments. Due to the large success a second course is planned for 2007. |
| 01.02.2006 |
A new version of FluoFit is now available. The version 4.11 now supports global fitting and batch fitting for all models as well as numerical reconvolution analysis. |
| 23.01.2006 |
The LDH 470 is now available with higher output power of up to 3 mW at 40 MHz repetition rate. |
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