US Patent Issued to Alpine Quantum Technologies on July 28 for "Single-sided standing wave for exciting trapped ions" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,078, issued on July 28, was assigned to Alpine Quantum Technologies GmbH (Innsbruck, Austria).

"Single-sided standing wave for exciting trapped ions" was invented by Alexander Erhard (Innsbruck, Austria), Thomas Feldker (Innsbruck, Austria) and Georg Jacob (Innsbruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments in the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and methods to excite a trapped ion. A first laser beam and a second laser beam pass through at least one common lens of an objective. The two laser beams are focused by said objective at the position of the trapped ion. A moving standing wave is generated at the pos...