David A. Rockwell
42Patents
12h-index
30Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: May 22, 1985 → Mar 8, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6327063A | Reconfigurable laser communications terminal | Electricity | 73 | Expired |
| US4757268A | Energy scalable laser amplifier | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US7983312B2 | Method and apparatus for generation and amplification of light in a semi-guiding high aspect ratio core fiber | Electricity | 31 | Active |
| US5434662A | Speckle resistant method and apparatus with chirped laser beam | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US4812639A | Self-aligning phase conjugate laser | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5483342A | Polarization rotator with frequency shifting phase conjugate mirror and simplified interferometric output coupler | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6317548A | Temperature and optical length control of optical fibers and optical waveguide devices | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5208699A | Compensated, SBS-free optical beam amplification and delivery apparatus and method | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US8565272B2 | Method and apparatus for generation and amplification of light in a semi-guiding high aspect ratio core fiber | Electricity | 20 | Active |
| US4853528A | Self-aligning phase conjugate laser | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US8515220B1 | Optical fiber coupler for coupling signal beams into a non-circularly shaped optical beam | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7860360B2 | Monolithic signal coupler for high-aspect ratio solid-state gain media | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US5568309A | System and method for amplification and wavefront compensation of depolarized optical beams | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5726795A | Compact phase-conjugate mirror utilizing four-wave mixing in a loop configuration | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US8594476B2 | Apparatus and method for mode control in a semi-guiding amplifier medium | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US9246303B1 | Method and apparatus for temporally concentrating pump power to support generation of high peak-power pulse bursts or other time-varying laser output waveforms | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US8467426B2 | Method and apparatus for cooling a fiber laser or amplifier | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US5353150A | Gain homogenization apparatus and method for use in stimulated scattering of beams with non-uniform spatial intensity distribution | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US8606062B2 | Apparatus and method for mode control in a semi-guiding amplifier medium | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7978943B2 | Monolithic pump coupler for high-aspect ratio solid-state gain media | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8643942B2 | Compensation of thermally induced refractive index distortions in an optical gain medium or other optical element | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8705918B2 | Multi-sectional fiber laser system with mode selection | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US6834146B2 | Differential phase shift keyed demodulator system | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US9322988B2 | Barbell optical fiber and method of making the same | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US5987160A | Method and apparatus for inspecting a photoresist material by inducing and detecting fluorescence of the photoresist material | Physics | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.