US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 26 for "Methods and apparatus to generate terahertz waves through cascaded nonlinear processes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,744, issued on May 26, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus to generate terahertz waves through cascaded nonlinear processes" was invented by Steven G. Johnson (Arlington, Mass.), Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Mass.), Charles Roques-Carmes (Cambridge, Mass.), Yannick Salamin (Arlington, Mass.) and Zin Lin (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that may enable the generation of highly-efficient, high-power, narrow-linewidth, and tunable light sources from microwave frequencies to mid-infrared wavelengths is disclosed. The light source comprises a nonlinear mediu...