Loop interferometer for passive state of light preparation
AssigneeTechnology Innovation Institute - Sole Proprietorship LLC
InventorsYury Kurochkin, James Grieve
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Abstract
A loop interferometer system including a laser, an optical loop, a beam splitter optically coupled to the laser and the optical loop, and a controller configured to control the laser to generate random phase pulses. The optical loop may be configured to receive the random phase pulses from the laser, time delay the random phase pulses, and direct the time delayed random phase pulses to the beam splitter. The beam splitter may be configured to create output optical pulses from an interference pattern between the random phase pulses from the laser and the time delayed random phase pulses from the optical loop.
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A loop interferometer system comprising:
- a laser;
- an optical loop;
- a beam splitter optically coupled to the laser and the optical loop;
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- a controller configured to control the laser to generate random phase pulses,
- wherein the optical loop is configured to receive the random phase pulses from the laser, time delay the random phase pulses, and direct the time delayed random phase pulses to the beam splitter, and
- wherein the beam splitter is configured to create output optical pulses from an interference pattern between the random phase pulses from the laser and the time delayed random phase pulses from the optical loop.
A loop interferometry method comprising:
- controlling, by a controller, a laser to generate random phase pulses;
- receiving, by an optical loop and a beam splitter, the random phase pulses, wherein the beam splitter is optically coupled to the laser and the optical loop;
- time delaying, by the optical loop, the random phase pulses from the laser;
- directing, by the optical loop, the time delayed random phase pulses to the beam splitter;
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- creating, by the beam splitter, output optical pulses from an interference pattern between the random phase pulses from the laser and the time delayed random phase pulses from the optical loop.
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