Inventor · Fryeburg, ME, US

Christopher Doerr

257Patents
23h-index
92Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 16, 1993 → May 17, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8503845B2 Multi-core optical fiber and optical communication systems Physics 227 Active
US5513194A Stretched-pulse fiber laser Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 121 Expired
US6275317A Hybrid integration of a wavelength selectable laser source and optical amplifier/modulator Electricity 99 Expired
US5617434A Stretched-pulse fiber laser Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US5625478A Optically restorable WDM ring network using simple add/drop circuitry Electricity 77 Expired
US5987050A Laser transmitter based on a coupler and having a controlled output port Electricity 65 Expired
US6304350A Temperature compensated multi-channel, wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network Electricity 65 Expired
US5809184A Polarization diversity waveguide grating receiver Physics 50 Expired
US6049640A Wavelength-division-multiplexing cross-connect using angular dispersive elements and phase shifters Electricity 49 Expired
US5913000A Method and apparatus for guiding optical signals Electricity 46 Expired
US9874688B2 Co-packaging photonic integrated circuits and application specific integrated circuits Electricity 46 Active
US6212315A Channel power equalizer for a wavelength division multiplexed system Electricity 39 Expired
US9557478B2 Electronic and optical co-packaging of coherent transceiver Physics 38 Active
US6351581B1 Optical add-drop multiplexer having an interferometer structure Physics 37 Expired
US10852492B1 Techniques to combine two integrated photonic substrates Physics 37 Active
US6055250A Multifrequency laser having reduced wave mixing Electricity 34 Expired
US5576881A Multi-frequency optical signal source having reduced distortion and crosstalk Electricity 34 Expired
US5923449A Optically restorable WDM ring network using simple add/drop circuitry Electricity 32 Expired
US9464883B2 Integrated optical coherence tomography systems and methods Electricity 30 Active
US6961492B2 Tunable dispersion compensator Physics 27 Expired
US9922887B2 Wafer-scale testing of photonic integrated circuits using horizontal spot-size converters Physics 26 Active
US6141467A Wavelength-division-multiplexing programmable add/drop using interleave-chirped waveguide grating router Physics 24 Expired
US7343066B2 Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer Physics 23 Expired
US8326100B2 Low loss broadband fiber coupler to optical waveguide Physics 22 Active
US6088144A Detection of frequency-modulated tones in electromagnetic signals Electricity 22 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.