US Patent Issued to QPHOX on July 1 for "Quantum wavelength converter between a microwave signal and an optical signal" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,001, issued on July 1, was assigned to QPHOX B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Quantum wavelength converter between a microwave signal and an optical signal" was invented by Simon Groeblacher (Delft, Netherlands), Moritz Forsch (Delft, Netherlands) and Robert Hugh James Stockill (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of a quantum wavelength converter between a microwave signal and an optical signal and vice versa. In the converter a nanoscale cavity optomechanical circuit is used in which optomechanical cavities supporting colocalized infrared photons and microwave phonons are combined with ...