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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
May. 15, 2019
Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Sergey V. Polyakov, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Ivan A. Burenkov, Germantown, MD (US);
Yu-Hsiang Cheng, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
A quantum flow cytometer detects an analyte with photon-number statistics and includes: a flow cytometer that receives a pump light, an analyte and produces scattered light from the analyte; an intensity interferometer that includes a beam splitter and receives the scattered light; splits the scattered light; and single photon detectors that receive the scattered light, such that the beam splitter and the single photon detectors provide photon number statistics that detects the analyte. A process for detecting the analyte with photon-number statistics includes: receiving the pump light; producing, by the analyte, scattered light from scattering the pump light; splitting the scattered light into first scattered light and second scattered light; detecting, by single photon detectors, the first scattered light and second scattered light; producing, by the single photon detectors, detection signals; and subjecting the detection signals to an analyzer to detect the analyte by photon number statistics.