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fastMOT at Laserlab-Europe General Assembly
Happy to share that Antonio Pifferi had the opportunity to present the latest developments of our fastMOT project at the Laserlab-Europe General Assembly,[…]

New interview series: Starting with WP4
We’re excited to launch a new series where members of the technical work packages share insights into their work and contributions to the[…]

New publication
Exciting news: Another research paper from our team has been published recently. Magic Silicon Dioxide for Widely Tunable Photonic Integrated CircuitsBruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Naresh[…]

Three new publications
We are excited to share that three new papers from our team have been published: Attojoule Superconducting Thermal Logic and MemoriesHui Wang, Niels[…]

fastMOT consortium meeting in Delft
Nearly two years after the project’s kickoff meeting, the fastMOT consortium met again in Delft for their third in-person meeting. Hosted at Delft[…]

fastMOT at Photonics West 2025
Happy to announce that Laura di Sieno has been invited to Photonics West 2025 to give a presentation on “New insights for time-domain[…]

New publication: Oxyhemoglobin measurements using 1064 nm light
While standard optical oximetry systems make use of two/more wavelengths across the isosbestic point of oxy/deoxy-hemoglobin and between 650 and 900 nm, this[…]

fastMOT at PD24
Happy to share that Alberto Dalla Mora had been invited to the 6th International Workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD24), which took place in[…]

Interview with Shrouk Eid Zaki Ahmed
“Being able to adapt to change is crucial” In our series #WomeninScience, we will hear from the female scientific staff working on fastMOT,[…]

fastMOT at Laserlab-Europe Talk
Now is your chance to learn more about the technicalities of our fastMOT project – in the Laserlab-Europe talk by Lisa Kobayashi from[…]

fastMOT at fNIRS2024
We are pleased to share that Xingmin Li of our project team represented us with a poster about simulations of Time Domain NIRS[…]

Interview with Laura Di Sieno
“There is always something to learn from everyone!” In our series #WomeninScience, we will hear from the female scientific staff working on fastMOT,[…]

1 year of fastMOT
It’s time to look back on our achievements and highlights after the first 12 months of the fastMOT project! In the months following[…]

fastMOT consortium meeting in Barcelona
Last week, the fastMOT consortium held its second in-person meeting at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Castelldefels, a coastal suburb of[…]

New publication: High-performance photon number resolving detectors for 850–950 nm wavelength range
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.[…]

Interview with Hui Wang
“Learn from frustrations and turn them into your opportunities for progress” In our series #WomeninScience, we will hear from the female scientific staff[…]

Interview with Xingmin Li
“Be confident to demonstrate your skills and abilities, and show what you’re made of!” In our series #WomeninScience, we will hear from the[…]

fastMOT at the Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2024
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,[…]

Busy weeks: Three deliverables submitted
We have been quite busy for the last couple of weeks! By the end of March, we concluded the work on three deliverables:[…]

Interview with Monique Gevers
“Sometimes you just have to take the plunge without overthinking” In our series #WomeninScience, we will hear from the female scientific staff working[…]

First tests on newly installed superconducting nanowire detector
It’s time for the first tests on the newly installed superconducting nanowire detector at PoliMi! We have started to test the detector on[…]

Interview with Lisa Kobayashi
“Going into tech is a decision that’s hard to regret” We are thrilled to announce the start of our new series #WomeninScience! In[…]

First prototype of SNSPD system installed at PoliMi
Busy week here at fastMOT! The first prototype of the multichannel SNSPD system was installed at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) by a Single[…]

fastMOT at the IEEE Photonics Conference 2023
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[…]

fastMOT kick-off meeting
For the start of fastMOT, all project partners gathered in Delft, the Netherlands, for a two-day meeting to set the course for the[…]

Revolutionising medical imaging
fastMOT proposes light sensing solution for non-invasive imaging of deep organ structures With its innovative fast gated, ultra-high quantum efficiency single-photon sensor, the[…]