News and Press Releases

October 13, 2021

PicoQuant held 26th Single Molecule Workshop in Berlin

About 100 researchers from around the world met to share the latest developments

From September 29 to October 1, 2021, PicoQuant organized the 26th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy”; the first on-site meeting in the single molecule community since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop gave scientists from 13 different countries the opportunity to finally meet in person for sharing their most recent results in the field of ultrasensitive optical detection down to the single molecule level and beyond the classical diffraction limit.

“It was really exciting to once again see so many members of the single molecule community and to interact with them in person. Judging from the feedback I got, the participants also greatly enjoyed networking and talking science while being in the same real world location”, says Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director of PicoQuant.

September 20, 2021

Free webinar: Prima – A new multiple color pulsed diode laser

Sneak peak with Product Manager Guillaume Delpont

When investigating a broad range of samples, researchers often need access to several excitation wavelengths. Buying multiple pulsed diode lasers or even a tunable laser can be quite expensive. PicoQuant’s solution for this challenge? The new compact, stand alone laser module Prima, which offers three individual emission wavelengths and can be operated either in picosecond pulsed or continuous wave mode. Join our Product Manager Guillaume Delpont for a sneak peak at this powerful yet affordable laser module in a free webinar.

Prima – A new multiple color pulsed diode laser
Guillaume Delpont, Product Manager
Date: October 12, 2021 at 10:00 and at 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)

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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)

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