US Patent Issued to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANA on May 6 for "Ultrafast temporal filtering for quantum communications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,413, issued on May 6, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANA (Ottawa).

"Ultrafast temporal filtering for quantum communications" was invented by Frederic Bouchard (Gatineau, Canada), Duncan England (Ottawa), Philip J. Bustard (Ottawa), Khabat Heshami (Ottawa) and Benjamin Sussman (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum communication method comprising: at a sender, preparing photons encoded in a single spatial, spectral, and temporal (SST) mode to form a quantum signal; and introducing the quantum signal into a quantum channel; at a receiver, a detector and filtering system optically processing the quantum signal a...