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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2022
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Corning, NY (US);
Sean Matthew Garner, Elmira, NY (US);
Thomas Dale Ketcham, Horseheads, NY (US);
Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Corning, NY (US);
Jun Yang, Horseheads, NY (US);
Haitao Zhang, Ithaca, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A ceramic waveguide includes: a doped metal oxide ceramic core layer; and at least one cladding layer comprising the metal oxide surrounding the core layer, such that the core layer includes an erbium dopant and at least one rare earth metal dopant being: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, or oxides thereof, or at least one non-rare earth metal dopant comprising zirconium or oxides thereof. Also included is a quantum memory including: at least one doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device with the ceramic waveguide and a method of fabricating the ceramic waveguide.