Francois Bilodeau
13Patents
10h-index
9Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 9, 1985 → Aug 13, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5367588A | Method of fabricating Bragg gratings using a silica glass phase grating mask and mask used by same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 192 | Expired |
| US4900119A | Wavelength selective optical devices using optical directional coupler | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US5104209A | Method of creating an index grating in an optical fiber and a mode converter using the index grating | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 101 | Expired |
| US5495548A | Photosensitization of optical fiber and silica waveguides | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US4895423A | Fabrication technique for low-loss fused taper directional couplers and pressure sensor produced thereby | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US5216739A | Method of creating an index grating in an optical fiber and a mode converter using the index grating | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US4586784A | Modal-insensitive biconical taper couplers | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6374016B1 | Polarization insensitive grating in a planar channel optical waveguide and method to achieve the same | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7606452B2 | Optical fiber fundamental mode field expander | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US6256435A | Polarization insensitive grating in a planar channel optical waveguide and method to achieve the same | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US4963177A | Method for making a grating assisted optical waveguide device | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| USRE39865E1 | Method of fabricating Bragg gratings using a silica glass phase grating mask and mask used by same | General | 6 | Expired |
| US5150439A | Simplified WDM fused fiber coupler design | Physics | 5 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.