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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2022
Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Jason John Gorman, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Thomas Warren Lebrun, Washington, DC (US);
David Alexander Long, Bethesda, MD (US);
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
An optomechanical ultrasound detector includes: a micromirror substrate; a mechanical resonator that receives ultrasound waves, oscillates at resonator frequency f, changes cavity length L, and produces intra-cavity light; and an optical microcavity between the micromirror substrate and the mechanical resonator with cavity length Lc and cavity resonance frequency fformed by the mechanical resonator and the micromirror substrate, such that the micromirror substrate produces cavity output light from the intra-cavity light, wherein the cavity output light optically encodes information about the ultrasound waves received by the mechanical resonator.