Patents by Inventor BENJAMIN WETZEL

BENJAMIN WETZEL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11742629
    Abstract: A method and a system for controlling an output of an optical system, the method comprising generating a plurality of optical signal components having different optical properties and passing the generated optical signal components as input to an optical system comprising an optical device and/or an optical medium; an output of the optical system being based on interactions of the signal components within the optical device and/or the optical medium; and relative proportions of the optical signal components that are generated and individual optical properties thereof being selected to control the output of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
    Inventors: Benjamin Wetzel, Michael Kues, Christian Reimer, Robin Helsten, Piotr Roztocki, Yoann Jestin, Roberto Morandotti
  • Publication number: 20200373726
    Abstract: A method and a system for controlling an output of an optical system, the method comprising generating a plurality of optical signal components having different optical properties and passing the generated optical signal components as input to an optical system comprising an optical device and/or an optical medium; an output of the optical system being based on interactions of the signal components within the optical device and/or the optical medium; and relative proportions of the optical signal components that are generated and individual optical properties thereof being selected to control the output of the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: BENJAMIN WETZEL, MICHAEL KUES, CHRISTIAN REIMER, ROBIN HELSTEN, PIOTR ROZTOCKI, YOANN JESTIN, ROBERTO MORANDOTTI
  • Patent number: 10505335
    Abstract: A method and a system for pulsed excitation of a nonlinear medium for photon pair generation, he method comprising exciting a single narrow resonance of a nonlinear resonant element with a pulsed laser field, comprising embedding a nonlinear resonant element directly into an external laser cavity and locking the cavity modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Yoann Jestin, Roberto Morandotti, Michael Kues, Benjamin Wetzel, Christian Reimer, Piotr Roztocki
  • Patent number: 10175556
    Abstract: A method and a system method for generating optical multipartite quantum states, comprising generating optical fields by at least two different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes and overlapping the optical fields spontaneously generated from the different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes into a same resonator mode of a third-order nonlinear resonator. The system comprises a multi-colored laser source exiting a nonlinear third-order resonator at different resonance frequencies belonging to different mode families of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUTE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Michael Kues, Benjamin Wetzel, Piotr Roztocki, Yoann Jestin, Fabio Grazioso, Roberto Morandotti
  • Patent number: 10177525
    Abstract: A passive mode-locked laser method and system, the system comprising a nonlinear optical loop comprising a resonant nonlinear element, coupled to an amplification section by a beam splitter, the beam splitter splitting a light beam from the amplification section into light beams propagating in opposite directions around the nonlinear optical loop, the resonant nonlinear element acting as both a nonlinear element and a narrow bandwidth filter for the laser system, allowing mode-locking operation of the system on a single resonance of the resonant nonlinear element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Yoann Jestin, Roberto Morandotti, Michael Kues, Benjamin Wetzel, Christian Reimer, Piotr Roztocki
  • Publication number: 20180081255
    Abstract: A method and a system method for generating optical multipartite quantum states, comprising generating optical fields by at least two different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes and overlapping the optical fields spontaneously generated from the different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes into a same resonator mode of a third-order nonlinear resonator. The system comprises a multi-colored laser source exiting a nonlinear third-order resonator at different resonance frequencies belonging to different mode families of the resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN REIMER, MICHAEL KUES, BENJAMIN WETZEL, PIOTR ROZTOCKI, YOANN JESTIN, FABIO GRAZIOSO, ROBERTO MORANDOTTI
  • Publication number: 20180069369
    Abstract: A passive mode-locked laser method and system, the system comprising a nonlinear optical loop comprising a resonant nonlinear element, coupled to an amplification section by a beam splitter, the beam splitter splitting a light beam from the amplification section into light beams propagating in opposite directions around the nonlinear optical loop, the resonant nonlinear element acting as both a nonlinear element and a narrow bandwidth filter for the laser system, allowing mode-locking operation of the system on a single resonance of the resonant nonlinear element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: YOANN JESTIN, ROBERTO MORANDOTTI, MICHAEL KUES, BENJAMIN WETZEL, CHRISTIAN REIMER, PIOTR ROZTOCKI
  • Publication number: 20180048110
    Abstract: A method and a system for pulsed excitation of a nonlinear medium for photon pair generation, he method comprising exciting a single narrow resonance of a nonlinear resonant element with a pulsed laser field, comprising embedding a nonlinear resonant element directly into an external laser cavity and locking the cavity modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: YOANN JESTIN, ROBERTO MORANDOTTI, MICHAEL KUES, BENJAMIN WETZEL, CHRISTIAN REIMER, PIOTR ROZTOCKI