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Ivan Burenkov (Assoc)

Ivan A. Burenkov has been working at NIST and JQI for over 10 years in the Quantum Optics Group. Current research interests broadly cover quantum optics, including single-photon sources, detectors, quantum measurements, and quantum biophotonics. Specific efforts involve the implementation of the DCQ-net quantum network between NIST and UMD and other agencies in the DC area, a single-photon sensitive quantum flow cytometer that allows for faster, more accurate blood tests, a quantum microscope with applications in early-stage cancer detection, and photonic quantum information transduction and processing devices for quantum networking and computing.

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Patents (2018-Present)

Quantum Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
A quantum flow cytometer for detecting an analyte with photon-number statistics includes: a flow cytometer that: receives a pump light in a first direction; receives an analyte flow comprising the analyte in a second direction; and produces scattered light from scattering the pump light by the

Quantum-Enabled Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
Flow cytometry is arguably the most powerful optical method routinely used in the diagnosis of health disorders and disease monitoring. We enhance an optical flow cytometer with a photon­ number statistics measurement. Our technique allows for an absolute measurement of biomarker concentration and

Quantum Flow Cytometer

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
We invented a flow cytometer that can self-calibrate in an absolute way that can reach the sensitivity for quantification and enumeration of a single and small number of biological markers per a biological entity. The cytometer uses a photon-number resolving detector (or a detector arrangement
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Communication Linker for Communication Linking

NIST Inventors
Sergey Polyakov and Ivan Burenkov
The US has the leading optical communication industry and one of the largest telecommunication markets. Our invention directly improves the underlying technology of the telecommunication infrastructure. Quantum Coherent Frequency Shift Keying (CFSK) receiver is a device that determines the frequency
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Created December 5, 2018, Updated September 11, 2026
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