Leon Esterowitz
32Patents
15h-index
16Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 8, 1976 → Nov 15, 1996
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5084880A | Erbium-doped fluorozirconate fiber laser pumped by a diode laser source | Electricity | 97 | Expired |
| US4967416A | Thulium-doped fluorozirconate fiber laser pumped by a diode laser source | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US4965803A | Room-temperature, laser diode-pumped, q-switched, 2 micron, thulium-doped, solid state laser | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US5272708A | Two-micron modelocked laser system | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4117329A | Room-temperature, thin-film, PbS photoconductive detector hardened against laser damage | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US4330763A | Resonantly pumped mid-ir laser | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US5200966A | Resonantly pumped, erbium-doped, GSGG, 2.8 micron, solid state laser with energy recycling and high slope efficiency | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5107509A | Tunable solid state laser with high wavelength selectivity over a preselected wavelength range | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US4321559A | Multiwavelength self-pumped solid state laser | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6358243B1 | Dual wavelength surgical laser system | Human Necessities | 21 | Expired |
| US4969150A | Tunable, continuous wave, thulium-doped, solid state laser | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5289482A | Intracavity-pumped 2.1 .mu.m Ho.sup.3+ :YAG laser | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5206867A | Suppression of relaxation oscillations in flashpumped, two-micron tunable solid state lasers | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5088103A | Room-temperature, flashpumped, 2.09 micron solid state laser | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5086432A | Resonantly pumped, erbium-doped, 2.8 micron solid state laser with high slope efficiency | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US4284962A | Excimer-pumped four level blue-green solid state laser | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5038353A | Method and apparatus for lasing | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5313477A | Rare earth ion doped CW cascade fiber laser | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5014279A | Laser diode pumped, erbium-doped, solid state laser with high slope efficiency | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US4347485A | Excimer-pumped blue-green laser | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US5268920A | System for end-pumping a solid state laser using a large aperture laser diode bar | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US5754572A | Mirrorless, distributed-feedback, ultraviolet, tunable, narrow-linewidth, solid state laser | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US4167712A | Praseodymium blue-green laser system | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5381428A | Tunable ytterbium-doped solid state laser | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US4126033A | Determination of thermal conductances of bonding layers in infrared photoconductor arrays | Physics | 7 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.