Optics at the Limit of Quantum Mechanics

We are building the next generation of super-resolution microscopes & telescopes allowing breakthrough discoveries in Biology, Pharmaceuticals, and Space.

Super-Resolution Microscopy

Drug Discovery and diagnostics rely on highly magnified and fast-captured images of biological processes.

Super-resolution microscopy is overcoming the physical boundaries of lenses, the diffraction limit. The discovery of the first super-resolution technique, STED, was awarded with the 2014 nobel prize.

Current best-in-class methods of Super-Resolution Imaging go to depths of several nm, but are too costly and can harm the sample in different ways.

We intend to change that with affordable add-ons to widefield, confocal and super-resolution microscopes, giving a significant increase of magnification and temporal resolution without harming the sample.

Our Tech  

Our technology was developed in partnership with DARPA and NASA for high-precision space situational awareness. It is intended to fit into the Habitable Worlds Observatory, the successor to the James Webb and Hubble space observatories, dedicated to finding exoplanets that can support life. We will bring the same technology to microscopes, allowing us to unlock the secrets of life.

We are pursuing modal imaging at the quantum limit of resolution, for passive imaging with incoherent light, of scene features of size far below the Rayleigh resolution limit. We attain the fundamental quantum limits in the regimes when conventional imaging techniques struggle, using pre-detection spatial mode sorting, including adaptive techniques.

Who we are

We are an early stage deeptech startup from MIT, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland.

Our Headquarters are in Boston, with lab spaces in Arizona and Maryland.

  • Johannes Galatsanos

    CO-FOUNDER, CEO

    Johannes is a researcher at MIT and the Center for Quantum Networks and an Oxford, Uni Frankfurt, and MIT Sloan Fellows MBA graduate. He spent 15 years in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Data & AI space, latest as an Executive Director at Novartis.

    Johannes is passionate about transforming the way we do research in Life Sciences using quantum technologies.

  • Prof. Saikat Guha

    CO-FOUNDER, CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    Saikat is the Director of the NSF Center of Quantum Networks, and the Clark Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland.

    Saikat is the inventor and patent holder of Mode Sorters for optical applications like we use at DiffraQTion, and is passionate to use this to discover the Secrets of Life on our planet and beyond.

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