Alan Robinson
25Patents
16h-index
44Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 24, 1996 → Mar 17, 2005
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5949560A | Optical transmission system | Electricity | 73 | Expired |
| US6124960A | Transmission system with cross-phase modulation compensation | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US7558479B1 | Analysis and control of optical communications systems | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US6411417B1 | Optical equalizer | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6313932A | Multiplexed transmission of optical signals | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US7580630B2 | Spectral shaping for optical OFDM transmission | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US7389055B1 | DQPSK receiver phase control | Electricity | 23 | Active |
| US6459533B1 | Tuneable optical filters | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6959149B2 | Power balancing in DWDM optical networks | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US7209670B2 | Polarization diversity receiver for optical transmission system | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6522436B2 | Multiplexed transmission of optical signals | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6483620B1 | Polarization mode dispersion measurement | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6381385B1 | Polarization mode dispersion emulation | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5856999A | Apparatus and method for data transmission on bonded data channels of a communications network utilizing a single serial communications controller | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5974206A | Dispersion compensation with low polarization mode dispersion | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6643429B2 | Dispersion compensation apparatus and method utilising sampled Bragg gratings | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US8538272B1 | Data security in optical communications systems | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US5717799A | Optical waveguide filters | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6275331A | Optical amplifiers | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US7136558B2 | Optical waveguide | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6526208B1 | Dispersion managed fiber optic cable and system | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6275328A | Amplifier control | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6768822B1 | Chromatic dispersion compensation | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6490389B1 | Fibre fuse protection | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US6847769B1 | Optical fiber amplifier | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.