System and method for multiplexed optical addressing of atomic memories

US12282242B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• President and Fellows of Harvard College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Inventors

• Ian Robert Christen · Cambridge, US
• Dirk Robert Englund · San Diego, US
• Hannes Bernien · Somerville, US
• Ahmed Omran · Austin, US
• Alexander Keesling Contreras · Boston, US
• Harry Jay Levine · Cambridge, US
• Mikhail D. Lukin · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2025
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04B10/70
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for optically modulating a plurality of optical channels includes a power delivery module adapted to convert a coherent light beam into a plurality of optical channels, at least one optical modulator, optically coupled to the power delivery module, the at least one optical modulator adapted to optically modulate each of the plurality of the optical channels, and a vacuum chamber having a trapping plane therein, the vacuum chamber adapted to generate an addressable array of trapped particles at the trapping plane, wherein each of the plurality of optical channels is optically coupled to at least one of the trapped particles of the addressable array.