ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,339, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).
"Photon source and method for quantum communication" was invented by Alberto Comin (Blagnac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon source for quantum communication including a plurality of optical channels, each comprising: a light emitter configured to emit optical pulses, and a phase mask optically connected to the respective light emitter and configured to encode an orbital angular momentum into incident light, wherein each of the phase masks of each optical channel is configured to encode a mutually orthogonal orbital angular momentum to the optical pu...