Inventor · Plano, TX, US

Gary A. Evans

38Patents
11h-index
48Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 11, 1974 → Jun 30, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5673284A Integrated laser and coupled waveguide Electricity 78 Expired
US6064783A Integrated laser and coupled waveguide Electricity 66 Expired
US4919507A Semiconductor radiation coupling system Electricity 27 Expired
US6775427B2 Laterally coupled wave guides Electricity 26 Expired
US6236773A Single wavelength semiconductor laser with grating-assisted dielectric waveguide coupler Electricity 21 Expired
US4976539A Diode laser array Electricity 16 Expired
US3958188A Fiber distributed feedback laser Electricity 16 Expired
US5019787A Optical amplifier Electricity 15 Expired
US4952019A Grating-coupled surface-emitting superluminescent device Electricity 15 Expired
US6810067B2 Single mode grating-outcoupled surface emitting laser with broadband and narrow-band DBR reflectors Electricity 14 Expired
US6760359B2 Grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers with flared gain regions Electricity 11 Expired
US4488307A Three-mirror active-passive semiconductor laser Electricity 10 Expired
US6413135B1 Spacer fabrication for flat panel displays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6716081B2 Spacer fabrication for flat panel displays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6600765B2 High-power coherent arrays of vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconducting lasers Electricity 9 Expired
US7113526B2 Multi-wavelength grating-outcoupled surface emitting laser system Electricity 8 Expired
US6647048B2 Grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers using quantum wells with thickness and composition variation Electricity 6 Expired
US6487328B2 Single wavelength semiconductor laser with grating-assisted dielectric waveguide coupler Electricity 6 Expired
US7092598B2 Chip-scale WDM system using grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers Electricity 5 Expired
US9762025B2 Temperature insensitive integrated electro-absorption modulator and laser Electricity 5 Active
US6888874B2 Single-wavelength, unequal-length-multi-cavity grating-outcoupled surface emitting laser with staggered tuned distributed Bragg reflectors Electricity 5 Expired
US6661825B2 Integrated grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers Electricity 5 Expired
US6853666B2 Integrated grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers Electricity 4 Expired
US6636547B2 Multiple grating-outcoupled surface-emitting lasers Electricity 3 Expired
US6714575B2 Optical modulator system Electricity 3 Expired

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