Happy to share that Alberto Dalla Mora had been invited to the 6th International Workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD24), which took place in Vancouver (Canada) from 19-22 November 2024. In his talk “Towards optical radiography: photon-detectors to look inside the body using light”, he also had the opportunity to[…]

We are pleased to share that Xingmin Li of our project team represented us with a poster about simulations of Time Domain NIRS SCOS and DCS at the VIII Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (#fNIRS2024) in September.

It’s time to look back on our achievements and highlights after the first 12 months of the fastMOT project! In the months following our kick-off meeting in April 2023, we have already seen some encouraging early results, from promising tests and experiments to our first publications and presentations. All[…]

Last week, the fastMOT consortium held its second in-person meeting at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Castelldefels, a coastal suburb of Barcelona. The gathering brought together all partners of the project to welcome new staff members, foster team cohesion, and tackle critical discussions regarding the project’s detector[…]

Since their first demonstration in 2001 [Gol’tsman et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 705–707 (2001)], superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have witnessed two decades of great developments. SNSPDs are the detector of choice in most modern quantum optics experiments and are slowly finding their way into other photon-starved fields of optics. Until now,[…]

We are happy to share that researchers from our team have represented our project at the Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics from 7-10 April 2024 at Fort Lauderdale, USA, and took the opportunity to meetup. Find out more about their presentations at https://fastmot.eu/publications/

We have been quite busy for the last couple of weeks! By the end of March, we concluded the work on three deliverables: D3.2: Sensor characteristics A Monte Carlo (MC) simulation framework for modelling the effect of real instruments’ characteristics on the detection of light that has propagated through[…]

It’s time for the first tests on the newly installed superconducting nanowire detector at PoliMi!  We have started to test the detector on liquid phantoms and in-vivo measurements to see how well we can extract blood flow information non-invasively using the new system.

Busy week here at fastMOT! The first prototype of the multichannel SNSPD system was installed at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) by a Single Quantum engineer. The PoliMi team was then instructed on the use of the system – now everything is ready to start an exciting measurement campaign!

We are thrilled to announce that Laura Di Sieno (CUSBO/POLIMI) had the opportunity to present the fastMOT project at the IEEE Photonics Conference 2023 in the vibrant city of Orlando! For more information, see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10360741