Pulsed laser and bioanalytic system

US11299778B2 · 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

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 15, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 12, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

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 for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate a reference clock for operating signal-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the instrument.