MODE-SELECTING QUANTUM CASCADE LASER

    公开(公告)号:US20250141185A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-01

    申请号:US18934858

    申请日:2024-11-01

    Abstract: A quantum cascade laser (QCL) may include multiple branch waveguide regions having one or more laser cores providing optical gain at one or more output wavelengths, a stem waveguide region, and multiple couplers arranged to couple light from the plurality of branch waveguide regions to the stem waveguide region. Each of the couplers may include two or more curved waveguide regions having a continuously-varying radius of curvature providing that a fundamental transverse mode at the output wavelengths is dominant, and a coupler to combine light from the two or more curved waveguides and maintain dominance of the fundamental transverse mode at the output wavelengths. The fundamental transverse mode at the output wavelengths may be dominant in output light from the stem waveguide.

    Method and apparatus for enhancing operation of leg prothesis

    公开(公告)号:US12213896B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-04

    申请号:US17632024

    申请日:2020-08-03

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing the operation of leg prothesis is provided. The apparatus includes a cable configured to be attached to the leg prosthesis worn by a subject to move through a plurality of gait phases. The apparatus also includes a module configured to be mounted to the leg prosthesis. The module includes a tension spring configured to engage the cable to maintain tension in the cable. The module also includes a locking mechanism configured to lock a position of the tension spring and maintain a length of the cable defined between the module and the leg prosthesis during a first gait phase of the plurality of gait phases. The locking mechanism is further configured to unlock the position of the tension spring to permit variation of the length of the cable during a second gait phase of the plurality of gait phases.

    Active Sparse Labeling of Video Frames

    公开(公告)号:US20250029410A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18667244

    申请日:2024-05-17

    Abstract: An active sparse labeling system that provides high performance and low annotation costs by performing partial instance annotation (i.e., sparse labeling) by frame level selection to annotate the most informative frames, thereby improving action detection task efficiencies. The active sparse labeling system utilizes a frame level cost estimation to determine the utility of each frame in a video based on the frame's impact on action detection. The system includes an adaptive proximity-aware uncertainty model, which is an uncertainty-based frame scoring mechanism. The adaptive proximity-aware uncertainty model estimates a frame's utility using the uncertainty of detections of the frame's proximity to existing annotations, thereby determining a diverse set of frames in a video which are effective for learning the task of dense video understanding (such as action detection). In addition, the active sparse labeling system includes a loss formulation training model (max-Gaussian weighted loss) that uses weighted pseudo-labeling.

    QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM TO OVERCOME INTERCEPT-RESEND AND DETECTOR-CONTROL QUANTUM HACKING

    公开(公告)号:US20250007702A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18597258

    申请日:2024-03-06

    Abstract: A quantum key distribution system may include a transceiver including a state randomizer to impart a random state transformation to one or more qubits of a generated faint pulse and a quantum bit encoder to reflect the faint pulse back to the transceiver with one or more encoded bits. The transceiver may receive a return pulse through the communication channel, where the state randomizer reverses the random state transformation. The transceiver may include a set of two detectors to measure the return pulse at time-gated timeslots associated with possible paths of the return pulse. Reception of the faint pulse from the quantum bit encoder as the return pulse triggers a detector in one or more known time-gated timeslots determined based on the random state transformation, while reception of a faked-state pulse results in a non-zero probability of triggering of a detector in a different time-gated timeslot.

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