US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Sept. 30 for "Electrometer with optical Rydberg frequency tuning" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,511, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Electrometer with optical Rydberg frequency tuning" was invented by Eric A. Imhof (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment includes an electrometer system. The system includes a sensor cell comprising alkali metal atoms within, and an optical beam system configured to provide at least one optical beam through the sensor cell to provide a first Rydberg energy state of the alkali metal atoms, the at least one optical beam exiting the sensor cell as a detection beam. The system also includes a tuning laser configured to...