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Swabian Instruments

Records detection events and provides software for correlations, counting and synchronized acquisition.

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Germany · Research brief reviewed 23 Sept 2026

Latest record: initial assessment added.

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  1. Initial assessment added

    Assessment reviewed 23 Sept 2026 · Research reviewed 23 Sept 2026

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    Initial four-axis assessment

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Identity & attribution
Organization record
Swabian Instruments (organization-178)
Recorded role
Photon timing and time-tagging instrumentation
Recorded aliases
No aliases recorded in this assessment.
Name and period
No dated name or ownership transition is recorded here. An alias is a search aid, not evidence of a legal ownership relationship.
Product scope
Time-tagging electronics for photon counting and digital-signal measurements.

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TECHNOLOGY & ACCESS

What it does. Where it fits.

Time-tagging electronics for photon counting and digital-signal measurements.

Who should look closer

Optics laboratories building photon-counting or timing measurements.

QubitWire’s editorial assessment of practical fit.

Commercial instruments and maintained software

Time Tagger models have different precision and throughput; supported APIs include Python, C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW and .NET.

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DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE

What the sources establish

A 2026 external paper uses Time Tagger Ultra to acquire photon events and conditionally gated counts; a September vendor-hosted LAAS account adds a separate photon-pair application.

Nature portfolio study ↗swabianinstruments.com ↗

What remains unresolved

Timestamp resolution and RMS timing precision differ. Detectors, signal thresholds and synchronization also constrain measurement accuracy.

The next question to watch

Independent comparisons of complete acquisition-chain uncertainty and sustained throughput.

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Open research questions

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Open research question

Independent comparisons of complete acquisition-chain uncertainty and sustained throughput.

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Source references in method 1.0 · assessment reviewed 23 Sept 2026
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Source 1

Current catalog distinguishes models and timing precision from digital resolution.

Time Tagger series ↗Published Not recorded
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Delivery

Current commercial models have maintained installation, API and operational documentation.

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Review recorded 23 Sept 2026. Research brief reviewed 23 Sept 2026. These dates do not establish publication or experiment dates.

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Source 2

Maintained manual documents installation prerequisites, C++ API, Python/MATLAB/LabVIEW/.NET wrappers and executable acquisition examples.

Time Tagger programming languages ↗Published Not recorded
Exact source location

No page, figure or section locator is recorded. Open the source and check the claim in its original context.

Delivery

Current commercial models have maintained installation, API and operational documentation.

Integration

Maintained multi-language wrappers and reusable examples cover acquisition, synchronization, hardware control and postprocessing.

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Source type: technical. Independent replication, experiment date and source-version fingerprint are not separately recorded.

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Review recorded 23 Sept 2026. Research brief reviewed 23 Sept 2026. These dates do not establish publication or experiment dates.

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Source 3

External researchers record photon detections with Time Tagger Ultra and analyze conditionally gated counts through Python. Author affiliations include universities, Linq Photonics and Pixel Photonics, not Swabian.

Voltage-programmable photon statistics using a high-extinction thin-film lithium niobate modulator ↗Published 8 May 2026
Exact source location

No page, figure or section locator is recorded. Open the source and check the claim in its original context.

Capability

Independent laboratory methods document working photon-event acquisition and conditional counting with the instrument.

Use in practice

A peer-reviewed external experiment explicitly uses the named product for its measurements.

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Source type: paper. Independent replication, experiment date and source-version fingerprint are not separately recorded.

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Review recorded 23 Sept 2026. Research brief reviewed 23 Sept 2026. These dates do not establish publication or experiment dates.

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Revision and evidence-family boundaries

Record reference: 9967577730bced69937c9952f3056d13b066d811a176c17081ecf3bd5046b8a3. Read prior recorded revisions.

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Sources & evidence

  1. Time Tagger product family ↗Company technical disclosure · Publication date not stated

    Separates model-dependent timing precision from digital resolution.

    Earlier claim used in the assessment

    Current catalog distinguishes models and timing precision from digital resolution.

  2. Time Tagger programming languages ↗Company technical disclosure · Publication date not stated

    Maintained acquisition APIs and examples.

    Earlier claim used in the assessment

    Maintained manual documents installation prerequisites, C++ API, Python/MATLAB/LabVIEW/.NET wrappers and executable acquisition examples.

  3. Voltage-programmable photon statistics ↗External-user peer-reviewed research · 8 May 2026

    External experimental methods identify the instrument and Python analysis.

    Earlier claim used in the assessment

    External researchers record photon detections with Time Tagger Ultra and analyze conditionally gated counts through Python. Author affiliations include universities, Linq Photonics and Pixel Photonics, not Swabian.

  4. Photon-pair generation at LAAS ↗Vendor-hosted customer account · 17 Sept 2026

    Named laboratory use; vendor-hosted customer account, with work still preparing for publication.