US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for wavelength conversion through plasmon-coupled surface states" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,615, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for wavelength conversion through plasmon-coupled surface states" was invented by Mona Jarrahi (Los Angeles), Deniz Turan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ping-Keng Lu (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing wavelength conversion via plasmon-coupled surface states are described that can be used for optical wavelength conversion to different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from microwave to infrared regimes in both pulsed and continuous wave operation."

The paten...