Applications Abound for Single-Photon Detectors
Jun 1, 2009 — “Single-photon detectors find application in various fields, such as time-correlated photon counting, fluorescence measurement, single-molecule detection, environment analyses, laser rangefinders, quantum cryptography and others,” said Dr. Danielle Moraes, sales manager of instrumentation at id Quantique SA of Geneva.
Fluorescence spectroscopy needs a very sensitive detector for the small number of photons emerging from the focal plane within the specimen. Courtesy of Carl Zeiss...