{"id":3421,"date":"2023-01-17T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T08:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/?post_type=specials&p=3421"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:28:55","slug":"photonics-applications-for-quantum-imaging-quantum-computing-and-more","status":"publish","type":"specials","link":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/specials\/photonics-applications-for-quantum-imaging-quantum-computing-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Photonics Applications for Quantum Imaging, Quantum Computing and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And it is in this spirit that Michael Kehr, Senior Sales Engineer, explains to the audience the trade fair highlight for Optatec 2022 – the ORCA-Quest! The camera is able to resolve the number of photoelectrons using a newly developed special technology.<\/p>\n

Light is an accumulation of many photons. The photons are converted into electrons on the sensor, and these electrons are called photoelectrons. Photon count resolution is a method of accurately measuring light by counting photoelectrons. In order to count these photoelectrons, the camera noise must be sufficiently smaller than the amount of photoelectron signal.<\/p>\n

“That’s why we dimmed the camera extremely to the lowest signal ranges and it can be seen here that the camera can still evaluate a quantitative signal even in the low photon number range.”<\/p>\n

So the camera will be used in applications that have extremely low light levels, such as high-speed fluorescence microscopy, but also very innovative applications such as quantum imaging, quantum computing with single atoms and extremely sensitive laser applications.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamamatsu Corporation @ Optatec 2022! The company’s philosophy is: “We explore light and use our discoveries to develop new products, with the aim of uncovering unexplored secrets and creating new future industries.”<\/p>\n

And it is in this spirit that Michael Kehr, Senior Sales Engineer, explains to the audience the trade fair highlight for Optatec 2022 – the ORCA-Quest! The camera is able to resolve the number of photoelectrons using a newly developed special technology.<\/p>\n

Light is an accumulation of many photons. The photons are converted into electrons on the sensor, and these electrons are called photoelectrons. Photon count resolution is a method of accurately measuring light by counting photoelectrons. In order to count these photoelectrons, the camera noise must be sufficiently smaller than the amount of photoelectron signal.<\/p>\n

“That’s why we dimmed the camera extremely to the lowest signal ranges and it can be seen here that the camera can still evaluate a quantitative signal even in the low photon number range.”<\/p>\n

So the camera will be used in applications that have extremely low light levels, such as high-speed fluorescence microscopy, but also very innovative applications such as quantum imaging, quantum computing with single atoms and extremely sensitive laser applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-3421","specials","type-specials","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specials\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specials"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/specials"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specials\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specials\/3421\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optatec-messe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}