Inventor · Windom, MN, US

Klein L. Johnson

35Patents
12h-index
38Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 18, 1997 → Jan 27, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5847865A Waveguide optical amplifier Electricity 73 Expired
US7654750B2 Bidirectional optical fiber link systems component couplers Physics 37 Active
US7031363B2 Long wavelength VCSEL device processing Electricity 34 Expired
US6445514B1 Micro-positioning optical element Electricity 30 Expired
US6909554B2 Wafer integration of micro-optics Physics 26 Expired
US7004644B1 Hermetic chip-scale package for photonic devices Electricity 22 Expired
US8249121B2 Push-pull modulated coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and method Electricity 17 Active
US8494018B2 Direct modulated modified vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and method Electricity 16 Active
USRE41738E1 Red light laser General 15 Active
US8989230B2 Method and apparatus including movable-mirror mems-tuned surface-emitting lasers Electricity 15 Active
US9088134B2 Method and apparatus including improved vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers Electricity 14 Active
US8660161B2 Push-pull modulated coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and method Electricity 14 Active
US7502109B2 Optical micro-spectrometer Physics 11 Active
US6990135B2 Distributed bragg reflector for optoelectronic device Electricity 11 Expired
US9739962B2 Plastic optical fiber data communication links Physics 9 Active
US7251264B2 Distributed bragg reflector for optoelectronic device Electricity 8 Expired
US6724798B2 Optoelectronic devices and method of production Electricity 6 Expired
US7359421B2 Red light laser Electricity 6 Active
US7065124B2 Electron affinity engineered VCSELs Electricity 5 Expired
US7061945B2 VCSEL mode-transforming phase filter with enhanced performance Electricity 5 Expired
US7425135B2 Flex circuit assembly Electricity 5 Expired
US6984076B2 Compact package design for vertical cavity surface emitting laser array to optical fiber cable connection Electricity 4 Expired
US10177527B2 VCSELS and VCSEL arrays designed for improved performance as illumination sources and sensors Electricity 3 Active
US10014661B2 Method and apparatus including improved vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers Electricity 2 Active
US7151785B2 Optoelectronic devices and methods of production Electricity 2 Expired

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