US Patent Issued to IonQ on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for beam shaping for large aspect ratio with a single cylindrical lens" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,520, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Systems and methods for beam shaping for large aspect ratio with a single cylindrical lens" was invented by Joachim Welte (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, for beam shaping for large aspect ratios with a single cylindrical lens. In some aspects, a QIP system includes a laser source, a cylindrical lens, and an ion trap. The laser source produces a Gaussian laser b...