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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2022
Applicant:

Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B 35/486 (2006.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01); G11C 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B 35/486 (2013.01); G11C 13/048 (2013.01); B82Y 40/00 (2013.01); C04B 2235/3227 (2013.01);
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.


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