Inventor · Mercer Island, WA, US

Eric Y. Chan

75Patents
14h-index
45Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: May 1, 1987 → Aug 6, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5889936A High speed asynchronous digital testing module Physics 80 Expired
US5745624A Automatic alignment and locking method and apparatus for fiber optic module manufacturing Physics 70 Expired
US5896481A Optical subassembly with a groove for aligning an optical device with an optical fiber Physics 57 Expired
US5109447A High-powered, spectrally flat, very broadband optical source including optical coupler and method using same Physics 52 Expired
US5071213A Optical coupler and method of making optical coupler Physics 46 Expired
US4879250A Method of making a monolithic interleaved LED/PIN photodetector array Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US5692086A Optical fiber locking submount and hermetic feedthrough assembly Physics 32 Expired
US4775640A Electronic device test method and apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5189679A Strained quantum well laser for high temperature operation Electricity 25 Expired
US8102397B2 Method for improving uniform width character strokes using multiple alignment zones Physics 23 Active
US5491432A CMOS Differential driver circuit for high offset ground Electricity 22 Expired
US5055894A Monolithic interleaved LED/PIN photodetector array Electricity 21 Expired
US7965913B2 Optical star coupler Physics 18 Active
USD617932S1 Lamp General 17 Expired
US7341384B2 Fiber optic transceiver module having built-in test capability and associated method Electricity 13 Expired
US9438338B1 System for bidirectional free-space laser communication of gigabit Ethernet telemetry data Electricity 13 Active
US5378582A Symmetric sweep scanning technique for laser ablation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US8768141B2 Video camera band and system Electricity 10 Active
US8554032B2 Optical star coupler for plastic optical fibers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US8478127B2 Burst mode optical media converter with fast analog conversion Electricity 10 Active
US6201486A Pre-processing of multiple sample rates sources to simplify and improve multi-channel DAC design Electricity 9 Expired
US6704515B1 Fiber optic interface module and associated fabrication method Electricity 9 Expired
US7961988B2 Rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator Physics 9 Active
US9297970B1 Low cost, connectorless, ruggedized small form factor optical sub-assembly (OSA) and data bus-in-A-box (BIB) Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active
US7484899B2 Small-form-factor fiber optic transceiver module having built-in test capability and method Electricity 8 Active

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