US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Feb. 3 for "Nanophotonic parametric quantum information processor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,701, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Nanophotonic parametric quantum information processor" was invented by Alireza Marandi (Pasadena, Calif.), Rajveer Nehra (Pasadena, Calif.), Ryoto Sekine (Pasadena, Calif.) and Luis M. Ledezma (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic integrated circuit comprising one or more waveguides comprising a second order non-linearity configured to operate on optical pulses each having a pulse length shorter than 1000 optical cycles, as measured at their full width at half maximum. The circuit is configured to generate one or mo...