The P100 | PicoStar from TauTec LLC is a 2.3 Megapixel CMOS camera that has a resolution of 1920 (H) x 1200 (V) pixels. It has a picosecond time-gated image intensifier coupled to CCD/CMOS camera via high optical efficiency relay optics. This imager CMOS camera has a global shutter that delivers a frame rate above 100 fps (at 12-bit ADC). It has a pixel size of 5.86 μm x 5.86 μm, an exposure time of 34 μs - 10 s, and fuel well capacity of 32,000 e^-. This camera has a read noise of 6e^- RMS and dark noise of 6 - 7 e^-/pixel/s.

The P100 | PicoStar operates in three modes: fast mode, slow mode and DC mode. It supports USB 3 interface and can be controlled manually via the front panel keypad or remotely via the RS232 serial interface through ASCII commands. The image intensifier has a minimum gate width of less than 100 ps (FWHM) with a trigger rate of up to 10 kHz. It has an intrinsic delay of approximately 50 ns and a jitter of less than 10 ps RMS. This camera has a sensitivity above 100 counts/photoelectron, spatial resolution of 25 lp/mm, and dynamic range of 2000:1.

The P100 | PicoStar is ideal for picosecond time-resolved optical imaging & spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, imaging through scattering media, diffuse optical tomography, optical breast imaging, photon migration, time-gated total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, quantum dot imaging, dynamics of photophysical and photochemical processes, time-gated Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence quenching, pump-probe imaging, plasma kinetics, OLED characterization, dynamics in semiconductors, ultrafast magnetic domain switching and LiDAR applications.