Compact mode-locked laser module

US10741990B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Quantum-Si Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Jonathan M. Rothberg · Paradise, US
• Jason W. Sickler · Arlington, US
• Lawrence C. West · San Jose, US
• Faisal R. Ahmad · Guilford, US
• Paul E. Glenn · Wellesley, US
• Jack L. Jewell · Boulder, US
• John Glenn · Carlisle, US
• Jose Camara · Saratoga, US
• Jeremy Christopher Jordan · Cromwell, US
• Todd Rearick · Cheshire, US
• Farshid Ghasemi · Guilford, US
• Jonathan Schultz · Guilford, US
• Keith G. Fife · Palo Alto, US
• Benjamin Cipriany · Branford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2020
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S3/1653
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.