Data acquisition control for advanced analytic instruments having pulsed optical sources

US11808700B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Quantum-Si Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Jonathan M. Rothberg · Paradise, US
• Benjamin Cipriany · Branford, US
• Faisal R. Ahmad · Guilford, US
• Joseph D. Clark · Litchfield, US
• Daniel B. Frier · Middlefield, US
• Michael Ferrigno · Farmington, US
• Mel Davey · Westbrook, US
• Tom Thurston · Guilford, US
• Brett J. Gyarfas · Guilford, US
• Todd Rearick · Cheshire, US
• Jeremy Christopher Jordan · Cromwell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 7, 2023
• Expiry date: May 10, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2201/126
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Instrument control and data acquisition in advanced analytic systems that utilize optical pulses for sample analysis are described. Clocking signals for data acquisition, data processing, communication, and/or other data handling functionalities can be derived from an on-board pulsed optical source, such as a passively mode-locked laser. The derived clocking signals can operate in combination with one or more clocking signals from a stable oscillator, so that instrument operation and data handling can tolerate interruptions in operation of the pulsed optical source.