Alan E. Willner
47Patents
13h-index
85Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 24, 1989 → Feb 3, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5982963A | Tunable nonlinearly chirped grating | Physics | 113 | Expired |
| US6330383A | Disperson compensation by using tunable nonlinearly-chirped gratings | Electricity | 74 | Expired |
| US6011885A | Integrated bi-directional gradient refractive index wavelength division multiplexer | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US5546209A | One-to-many simultaneous and reconfigurable optical two-dimensional plane interconnections using multiple wavelength, vertical cavity, surface-emitting lasers and wavelength-dependent detector planes | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6915040B2 | Devices and applications based on tunable wave-guiding bragg gratings with nonlinear group delays | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6714742B1 | Polarization-division multiplexing based on power encoding of different polarization channels | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6542650B2 | Polarization-mode dispersion emulator | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6646774B1 | Intra-bit polarization diversity modulation | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7035538B2 | Monitoring optical dispersion based on vestigial side band optical filtering | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US6453095B2 | Tuning of optical dispersion by using a tunable fiber bragg grating | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US6400869B2 | Tunable compensation for polarization-mode dispersion using a birefringent nonlinearly-chirped bragg grating in a dual-pass configuration | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US9110219B1 | On-chip two-octave supercontinuum generation enabled by advanced chromatic dispersion tailoring in slotted waveguides | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US9768909B2 | Systems and techniques for orbital angular momentum based reconfigurable switching | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US6603890B2 | Compensation for polarization-mode dispersion in multiple wavelength-division multiplexed channels without separate composition for each individual channel | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US7206517B1 | Monitoring and in-line compensation of polarization dependent loss for lightwave systems | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6388785B2 | Optical compensation for dispersion-induced power fading in optical transmission of double-sideband signals | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7369766B2 | Optically boosted router | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6621627B2 | WDM fiber amplifiers using sampled bragg gratings | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6654103B2 | Compensation and control of both first-order and higher-order polarization-mode dispersion | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5081002A | Method of localized photohemical etching of multilayered semiconductor body | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6453093B2 | Tunable optical dispersion-slope compensation based on a nonlinearly-chirped bragg grating | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US10411811B2 | Systems and techniques for communication using combined orbital angular momentum and multiple-input-multiple-output processing | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US6459479B1 | Optical detection of a fiber span with high polarization-mode dispersion in a fiber system | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US8976445B1 | Optical tunable tapped-delay-lines using wavelength conversion and chromatic dispersion based delays | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9780872B2 | Adaptive optics based simultaneous turbulence compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beams | Electricity | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.