Igniting questions, detecting answers: Hamamatsu Photonics introduces the world’s first photon-number-resolving scientific camera

S. Beer; J. R. Brown

doi:10.1117/12.2653242

11 January 2023 Igniting questions, detecting answers: Hamamatsu Photonics introduces the world’s first photon-number-resolving scientific camera

S. Beer, J. R. Brown

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Proceedings Volume 12335, Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science III; 1233506 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2653242
Event: SPIE Photonex, 2022, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Abstract

Igniting Questions, Detecting Answers; Hamamatsu Photonics introduces the world’s first photon-number-resolving scientific camera Hamamatsu introduces their scientific camera – the ORCA-Quest®, with incredibly low noise of 0.27 electrons rms and a high pixel count of 9.4 megapixels. In quantitative imaging, the photoelectric noise generated when light is converted into electrical signals is the all-important factor that determines the lower detection limit of a camera. The ORCA-Quest is able to reduce this photoelectric noise to a level below the signals generated by photons, making it the world’s first camera to achieve 2D photon-number-resolving measurement, meaning that it accurately measures the number of photons within each pixel.

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S. Beer and J. R. Brown "Igniting questions, detecting answers: Hamamatsu Photonics introduces the world’s first photon-number-resolving scientific camera", Proc. SPIE 12335, Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science III, 1233506 (11 January 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2653242

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