News and Press Releases

August 24, 2021

First MicroTime Virtual Show Day

The potential of single molecule lifetime measurements

We are pleased to announce our very first MicroTime Virtual Show Day. Join us if you are interested in learning more about the potential of single molecule lifetime measurements to advance your research and about the unique performance of our confocal microscope, the MicroTime 200. Our experts Olaf Schulz and Mathias Bayer will demonstrate how easily rapidFLIM, FLIM-FRET, smFRET and FC(C)S data can be acquired and analyzed, as well as answering any questions that might arise.

Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Two time slots: 10:00 am and at 3:00 pm (CEST
Registration: simply send an email to info@picoquant.com

Reserve about an hour and a half for the event.

August 3, 2021

PicoQuant and Seven Solutions jointly release white paper on synchronizing TCSPC units in a White Rabbit timing network

Free paper demonstrates impact of synchronization on time accuracy of MultiHarp devices connected by switches

In a recent paper, researchers from PicoQuant have demonstrated that synchronizing Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) devices in a White Rabbit timing network has only a negligible effect on their time accuracy. Multiple devices from PicoQuant’s MultiHarp product line were connected using Low Jitter White Rabbit switches from Seven Solutions the leading manufacturer of White Rabbit components. The authors have investigated how various network topologies, optical fiber lengths, and presence of Ethernet traffic affects the time accuracy of connected MultiHarp 150 and MultiHarp 160 devices.

July 22, 2021

Invited webinar with Prof. Ben Schuler

Probing dynamics and interactions of IDP

The next renowned scientist in our ongoing series of free webinars is Prof. Ben Schuler from the University of Zürich (Switzerland). He will illustrate how the combination of single-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) with nanosecond correlation spectroscopy, microfluidic mixing, and other methods can be used to probe the intra- and intermolecular distance distributions, reconfiguration dynamics, and interactions over a wide range of timescales, and in heterogeneous environments, including live cells.

Probing the Dynamics and Interaction Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Prof. Ben Schuler, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Date: August 25, 2021 at 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Registration page

July 20, 2021

25 years of PicoQuant – Excellency in photonic components and instrumentation

A look back on becoming market leader in time-resolved optical measurements while not forgetting social responsibility

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Berlin-based PicoQuant, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of high quality photonic components and instrumentation. “It has been an exciting and successful journey for us at PicoQuant. When we started in 1996, I could not imagine that we would – one day – be a company with globally over 125 employees. I am also very proud, that we are successfully making complex scientific applications accessible to researchers all over the world,” says Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director and one of the company founders.

www.picoquant.com/25years

July 19, 2021

This year’s Fluorescence Course will be virtual

Registration is open until October 4, 2021

Our 18th International Course on "Principles and Applications of Time-resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" will take place November 8-11, 2021 as a Virtual Meeting. Deadline for early bird registration is August 31, 2021, the final deadline for registration is October 4, 2021.