Product News

April 4, 2024

Enhanced synchronization capabilities with White Rabbit interface

Available for our multichannel event timers MultiHarp 150 and MultiHarp 160

The White Rabbit interface offers precise synchronization and timestamping for two separate time taggers with multiple channels. This ensures accurate time correlation between multiple devices or even different experiments, without cumbersome postprocessing. Amongst other applications, this is particularly relevant for quantum cryptography experiments.

PicoQuant's new Python wrapper snAPI allows you to easily implement White Rabbit into your experiments, enabling the simultaneous measurement initiation of two devices with predefinable measurement times. This ensures precise and reliable data acquisition, further streamlining synchronization capabilities across various applications.

White Rabbit interfaces are available with our MultiHarp 150 and MultiHarp 160 multichannel event timers.

Picture: Example of a network topology. The green bubbles stand for a MultiHarp 150 or MultiHarp 160 device. The blue bubbles represent the White Rabbit switches. 

September 27, 2023

PicoQuant’s commitment to sustainable consumption: extending the lifespan of scientific systems

A 21-year-old MicroTime 200 microscope receives comprehensive upgrade

Extending product lifespan is considered to be most effective way towards sustainable consumption. With this in mind, we at PicoQuant design our systems so that they can be repaired and upgraded for a long time, enabling cutting-edge research for many years.

Here is one example: The second MicroTime 200 fluorescence microscope ever sold, which was installed in 2002, received a comprehensive upgrade, breathing new life into a two-decade-old system at the Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal. It is wonderful to see that a system sold 21 years ago is still operational in the lab of Prof. Sílvia Brito Costa and Pedro Paulo and can be serviced by us.

September 8, 2023

PicoQuant releases time tagger PicoHarp 330 with outstanding timing precision of 2 ps RMS

The new event timer and TCSPC unit is made for cutting-edge photonics research

At PicoQuant, innovation is our driving force, and today, we are excited to introduce our latest addition to our scientific time tagger family: PicoHarp 330 Precise and Versatile Event Timer & TCSPC Unit

A glimpse into PicoHarp 330's remarkable features:

• Easy-to-use: plug-and-play event timer, user-friendly software included
• A time resolution of 1 ps and outstanding timing precision of 2 ps RMS (single channel, 3 ps RMS between channels)
• User selectable trigger method, supports widest possible variety of single photon detectors
• Exceptional data throughput via USB 3.0 interface allows count rates up to 85 million counts per second
• Compact and robust: high quality reflected by unique 5-year limited warranty

With the PicoHarp 330 at your disposal, you'll be equipped to break new ground, unlock fresh possibilities, and gain deeper insights into the fascinating realm of photonics and beyond. To discover more cutting-edge features, visit the product website.

For more information, contact our application specialists.

September 4, 2023

PicoQuant releases fast and intuitive Python wrapper snAPI

Seamless communication, configuration, and data handling with TCSPC devices

PicoQuant releases Snappy new API (snAPI), a powerful Python wrapper which enables seamless communication and configuration with PicoQuant’s Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) and Time Tagging Electronics. It harnesses the advantages of C++ for optimal speed and performance and bridges the gap between the high-speed capabilities of PicoQuant’s TCSPC devices and the ease of use and versatility of Python.

It is available for free at GitHub.

> snAPI product page

June 19, 2023

Our Highlights at LASER World of POTONICS in Munich

Drop by our booth B2.216 at discuss your needs with our experts

We are looking forward to meeting you in person from June 27 to 30 at the LASER World of PHOTONICS in Munich. We are bringing exciting innovations in all three product lines with us: First, Prima, a compact three-color picosecond laser module. Next, the PDA-23 single photon detector array, available in combination with the MultiHarp 160 multi-channel TCSPC module. Last but not least, the FluoMic add-on for our FluoTime spectrometers, which enables time-resolved micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy. Come by our booth to see these and other new products live.