US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 14 for "All-optical single-photon detector" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,137, issued on July 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"All-optical single-photon detector" was invented by Demid V. Sychev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Alexandra Boltasseva (West Lafayette, Ind.), Peigang Chen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Morris Menghuan Yang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Colton B. Fruhling (Lafayette, Ind.), Alexei Lagutchev (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Alexander V. Kildishev (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrafast system for detecting incidence of a single photon is disclosed which includes a single photon avalanche detector ha...