PicoQuant Opens Chinese App Center

Optoelectronics developer PicoQuant GmbH has opened its Application Center China, a showroom for time-resolved fluorescence test measurement technology based in China’s Optical Valley.

The new facility will serve potential customers from all over China, providing them with the opportunity to perform test measurements with their own samples on PicoQuant’s time-resolved fluorescence spectrometers and microscopes. The center is equipped with the fully automated, high-end, modular FluoTime 300 spectrometer featuring most currently available accessories. In the near future, the MicroTime 200 time-resolved, single-molecule-sensitive confocal fluorescence microscopy platform will also be available for customer test measurements.

“PicoQuant is highly customer-oriented,” said Rainer Erdmann, CEO of PicoQuant. “We are a leading brand in this field and want to provide our customers with the best possible experience so that our instruments will be beneficial for their research. It is therefore a great pleasure for us that researchers from China now have the opportunity to perform test measurements locally.”

“Wuhan Future City is one of China’s leading science and technology innovation centers focusing on world-class, cutting-edge R&D in various fields, including optoelectronics,” said Wang Huiwen, president of photonic services provider ETSC Technologies and partner for the project. “The opening of this application center is a great opportunity for the many highly talented researchers, engineers, and students from the 13 national laboratories and about 58,000 companies to experience the capabilities of PicoQuant products firsthand.”

PicoQuant’s product portfolio encompasses picosecond-pulsed diode lasers and LEDs, photon counting instrumentation, fluorescence lifetime spectrometers, FLIM and FCS upgrade kits for laser scanning microscopes, and time-resolved confocal and superresolution microscopes.