US 11,983,607 B2
Whispering-gallery mode optical resonator
Gil Semo, Tel-Aviv (IL); Ziv Aqua, Rehovot (IL); Oded Melamed, Shoham (IL); Dan Charash, Herzliya (IL); Serge Rosenblum, Rehovot (IL); and Barak Dayan, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Rehovot (IL); and Quantum Source Labs Ltd., Tel Aviv-Jaffa (IL)
Filed by QUANTUM SOURCE LABS LTD., Tel Aviv-Jaffa (IL); and YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD., Rehovot (IL)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/300,629.
Application 18/300,629 is a continuation of application No. PCT/IB2023/052601, filed on Mar. 16, 2023.
Application PCT/IB2023/052601 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2022/000564, filed on Apr. 27, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/320,454, filed on Mar. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419150 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H01S 3/042 (2006.01); G06N 10/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06N 10/40 (2022.01) [H01S 3/042 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A quantum computing system, comprising:
a whispering-gallery mode optical resonator configured to define a closed loop-like mode including an evanescent field portion, wherein the optical resonator is configured to be tuned to support a resonance frequency associated with a transition frequency of an atom;
at least one trapping laser configured to cause the atom to be trapped adjacent the whispering-gallery mode optical resonator;
at least one cooling laser configured to manipulate a state of the atom to thereby cool the atom;
at least one optical atom presence detector for outputting an atom presence signal; and
at least one processor configured to:
control operation of the at least one trapping laser to cause the atom to be trapped adjacent the optical resonator and within the evanescent field portion;
provide, based on the atom presence signal, an indication that the atom is trapped adjacent the optical resonator; and
control operation of the at least one cooling laser and thereby cool the atom.