News and Press Releases

March 13, 2025

Where Are They Now? A Look at Past Winners of PicoQuant’s Student Award

Celebrating 30 Years of the Single Molecule Workshop: Catching up with past award recipients and their inspiring career journeys

"It is not just another conference – it is a place where early-career scientists are truly heard, and where connections last beyond the event." - Susana Rocha, Associate Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium

The Student Award at PicoQuant's Single Molecule Workshop has been an important step in the careers of many young researchers. But what happened next? In a series "Where Are They Now?", we highlight former award winners, from those shaping the future of science to those making an impact in industry and beyond.

March 11, 2025

NovaISM: Advancing FLIM with Super-Resolved Spatial Details and Enhanced Contrast

New Image Scanning Microscopy analysis software for the Luminosa confocal microscope

PicoQuant introduces NovaISM, a cutting-edge software for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) and Image Scanning Microscopy (ISM) that delivers super-resolved spatial details and improved contrast. Designed for seamless integration with the Luminosa microscope, NovaISM is optimized for the PDA-23 SPAD array, enhancing FLIM imaging with unparalleled precision. Key features include pixel reassignment, which refines spatial resolution, and deconvolution, which restores fine details and reduces noise. These improvements ensure sharper optical sectioning and better signal quality, allowing researchers to extract more information from every photon. With NovaISM, FLIM users can achieve a new level of clarity in cellular biophysics, protein interactions, and metabolic imaging.

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March 10, 2025

PicoQuant’s 30th Single Molecule Workshop: Advancing Research for Three Decades

A Special Anniversary Edition with Nobel Laureates Stefan Hell and W. E. Moerner as Keynote Speakers

PicoQuant proudly announces the 30th anniversary of its Single Molecule Workshop, taking place in Berlin from September 23 to 26, 2025. Over the past three decades, this workshop has established itself as a leading platform for researchers in single molecule spectroscopy and super-resolution microscopy, bringing together experts from physics, chemistry, biology, and life sciences.

February 4, 2025

Course on Time-resolved Fluorescence Microscopy

Registration is now open

Registration is now open for our Course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”. It will be held as an online event from May 13-16, 2025. Benefit from theoretical as well as practical sessions, discussions, and networking opportunities in an interactive format.

The course provides an in-depth introduction to the world of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy with a focus on life science applications. It combines a series of lectures by experts in the field with practical sessions on systems from the market-leading companies Nikon, Evident (former Olympus), Zeiss, and PicoQuant.

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January 27, 2025

The future of TCSPC has arrived: HydraHarp 500

Our new time tagger sets new standards in speed, precision, and flexibility

We’re excited to unveil the HydraHarp 500, our next-generation Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) unit. With its outstanding time resolution, unparalleled precision, and up to 16 independent channels, the HydraHarp 500 sets a new benchmark for high-throughput applications. From quantum communication and quantum information to time-resolved spectroscopy, this groundbreaking device is engineered to empower your research.

Key Features:

• 16 independent channels with low deadtime for simultaneous multi-channel data recording
• No deadtime between channels for uninterrupted data acquisition
• Support for diverse detectors, including SPADs and SNSPDs
• Seamless integration via USB 3.0, external FPGA, and White Rabbit for precise synchronization