David J. DiGiovanni
96Patents
27h-index
102Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 22, 1990 → Sep 29, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5802236A | Article comprising a micro-structured optical fiber, and method of making such fiber | Electricity | 283 | Expired |
| US7760978B2 | Optical fiber configuration for dissipating stray light | Physics | 230 | Active |
| US5864644A | Tapered fiber bundles for coupling light into and out of cladding-pumped fiber devices | Electricity | 159 | Expired |
| US5050949A | Multi-stage optical fiber amplifier | Electricity | 133 | Expired |
| US5949941A | Cladding-pumped fiber structures | Electricity | 107 | Expired |
| US5966491A | Cladding-pumped fiber structure | Electricity | 101 | Expired |
| US5430572A | High power, high gain, low noise, two-stage optical amplifier | Electricity | 100 | Expired |
| US5907652A | Article comprising an air-clad optical fiber | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 93 | Expired |
| US5237576A | Article comprising an optical fiber laser | Electricity | 92 | Expired |
| US5115338A | Multi-stage optical amplifier | Electricity | 87 | Expired |
| US5659644A | Fiber light source with multimode fiber coupler | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US5187759A | High gain multi-mode optical amplifier | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US5703978A | Temperature insensitive long-period fiber grating devices | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US5406404A | Method of mitigating gain peaking using a chain of fiber amplifiers | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US5708669A | Article comprising a cladding-pumped optical fiber laser | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US5935288A | Method for producing fused fiber bundles | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 43 | Expired |
| US5058976A | System comprising Er-doped optical fiber | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US7043128B2 | Multimode optical fibers with increased bandwidth | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US7437046B2 | Optical fiber configuration for dissipating stray light | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US5123940A | Sol-gel doping of optical fiber preform | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US6397636B1 | Method of applying a precursor to an assembled fiber bundle and fusing the bundle together | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5132976A | Electrically tunable fiber ring laser | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US5596668A | Single mode optical transmission fiber, and method of making the fiber | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US7171074B2 | Large mode area fibers using higher order modes | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6654522B2 | Process for fabricating tapered microstructured fiber system and resultant system | Physics | 32 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.