Inventor · Fort Washington, MD, US

Edward J. Sharp

18Patents
7h-index
11Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 28, 1983 → Dec 9, 1994

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5561541A Frustrated total internal reflection optical power limiter Physics 55 Expired
US4712881A Birefringent artificial dielectric structures Physics 33 Expired
US4819239A Laser Q-switch Electricity 27 Expired
US5986828A Optical power limiter utilizing nonlinear refraction Physics 24 Expired
US4913934A Process for making laser Q-switch Electricity 22 Expired
US5317442A Mutually pumped phase conjugator for remote identification Electricity 15 Expired
US5063418A Optical non-linear artificial dielectrics Electricity 8 Expired
US5301069A Nonlinear rugate optical limiter Physics 7 Expired
US5317454A Broadband self-activated optical power limiter system and device Physics 6 Expired
US5348688A Optical power limiters and materials therein Physics 6 Expired
US5739947A Nonlinear optical power limiter using self-trapping of light Physics 5 Expired
US5449904A Broadband passive optical limiter using a photorefractive crystal, cylindrical lens and filter to protect against substantially all pulsewidths and continuous wave lasers Physics 4 Expired
US5844734A Dispersive fabry-perot infrared multiwavelength optical filter Physics 3 Expired
US5073705A Broadband, multi-line, optical power limiting scheme Physics 3 Expired
US5495101A Enhancement for broadband optical limiter with holographic grating Physics 2 Expired
US5793505A Fabry-Perot multiwavelength infrared filter with artificial dielectric Electricity 2 Expired
US5844735A Fabry-Perot infrared multiwavelength optical filter Physics 1 Expired
US5739950A Broadband protector for photodetectors Physics 1 Expired

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