Inventor · Birmingham, GB

Ian Bennion

14Patents
8h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 26, 1985 → Dec 15, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4838634A Organic optical waveguides and method of fabricating waveguide structures Physics 26 Expired
US4867543A Spatial light modulator Physics 20 Expired
US4795226A Optical fibre reflective diffraction grating devices Physics 20 Expired
US5061582A Optical data storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US4990287A Optical devices utilizing photochromic compounds Physics 13 Expired
US6018160A Apparatus for sensing temperature and/or strain in an object with optical fiber Bragg gratings Physics 12 Expired
US6816638B1 Strain sensing Physics 11 Expired
US4732599A Method for manufacture of optical devices Physics 10 Expired
US7580184B2 Gires-Tournois etalons and dispersion compensators Physics 4 Expired
US4834511A Optical resonant assembly Physics 4 Expired
US6833541B2 Dual-parameter optical waveguide grating sensing device and sensor Physics 3 Expired
US6907165B2 Methods of fabricating a regenerated optical waveguide grating Physics 2 Expired
US7221814B2 Optical waveguide based surface profiling apparatus Physics 1 Expired
US6826340B2 Optical pulse transmission lines Electricity 1 Expired

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