US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 22 for "All-optical epsilon-near-zero enabled streak camera" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,677, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"All-optical epsilon-near-zero enabled streak camera" was invented by Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Alexandra Boltasseva (West Lafayette, Ind.), Colton B. Fruhling (Lafayette, Ind.) and Mustafa Goksu Ozlu (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streak camera is disclosed which includes an entrance slit forming a first end of the streak camera, the entrance slit having a width and height, an image capture device forming a second send of the streak camera, and an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) slab defined by a bandgap ene...