Howard D. Kidorf
15Patents
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17Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 23, 1996 → Mar 10, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6081366A | Optical fiber communication system with a distributed Raman amplifier and a remotely pumped er-doped fiber amplifier | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US6320884A | Wide bandwidth Raman amplifier employing a pump unit generating a plurality of wavelengths | Electricity | 60 | Expired |
| US6181464A | Low noise Raman amplifier employing bidirectional pumping and an optical transmission system incorporating same | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US7032154B2 | Concatenated forward error correction decoder | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6052219A | Wide bandwidth Raman amplifier capable of employing pump energy spectrally overlapping the signal | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US6122298A | Multi-wavelength optical pump | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6028684A | Path to provide OTDR measurements of an optical transmission system that includes optical isolators | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6147796A | Method for determining transmission parameters for the data channels of a WDM optical communication system | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US6141468A | Method of apparatus for remotely pumping a rare-earth doped optical fiber amplifier and a communication system employing same | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6456425B1 | Method and apparatus to perform lumped raman amplification | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6711359B1 | Optical fiber communication system employing doped optical fiber and Raman amplification | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US7519295B2 | Apparatus and method for commissioning an optical transmission system | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US6486466B1 | Wide bandwidth raman amplifier having a substantially flat gain profile | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6016373A | Apparatus and method for configuring a fiber optical assembly | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US7646983B2 | Apparatus and method for commissioning an optical transmission system | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.