ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,155, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).
"Low-power source of squeezed light" was invented by Bonnie L. Marlow (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) squeezed light apparatus includes one or more pump beams, a probe beam, a vapor cell, a repump beam, and a detector. The one or more pump beams includes an input power of no greater than about 150 mW. The vapor cell includes an atomic vapor configured to interact with overlapped pump and probe beams to generate an amplified probe beam and a conjugate beam. The repump beam is configured to optically pump the atomi...