Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Luis A. Spinelli

46Patents
17h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 24, 1990 → Nov 20, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5040182A Mode-locked laser Electricity 71 Expired
US6097742A High-power external-cavity optically-pumped semiconductor lasers Electricity 62 Expired
US5991318A Intracavity frequency-converted optically-pumped semiconductor laser Electricity 59 Expired
US6370168B1 Intracavity frequency-converted optically-pumped semiconductor laser Electricity 56 Expired
US6590911B1 Passively modelocked harmonic-generating laser Electricity 54 Expired
US6167068A Intracavity frequency-converted optically-pumped semiconductor laser Electricity 39 Expired
US7413311B2 Speckle reduction in laser illuminated projection displays having a one-dimensional spatial light modulator Physics 37 Active
US5079772A Mode-locked laser using non-linear self-focusing element Electricity 37 Expired
US6285702A High-power external-cavity optically-pumped semiconductor laser Electricity 37 Expired
US5163059A Mode-locked laser using non-linear self-focusing element Electricity 35 Expired
US9014220B2 High-power CW fiber-laser Electricity 29 Active
US7593440B2 MOPA laser apparatus with two master oscillators for generating ultraviolet radiation Electricity 29 Active
US7244028B2 Laser illuminated projection displays Electricity 28 Expired
US7130321B2 Intracavity frequency-tripled CW laser with traveling-wave ring-resonator Electricity 24 Expired
US5097471A Mode-locked laser using non-linear self-focusing element Electricity 23 Expired
US6198756A CW far-UV laser system with two active resonators Electricity 23 Expired
US7463657B2 Intracavity frequency-tripled CW laser Electricity 18 Expired
US5912912A Repetitively-pulsed solid-state laser having resonator including multiple different gain-media Electricity 17 Expired
US7035012B2 Optical pulse duration extender Electricity 15 Expired
US7355657B2 Laser illuminated projection displays Electricity 11 Active
US6574255B1 High-power external-cavity optically-pumped semiconductor lasers Electricity 11 Expired
US6507593B1 Step-tunable external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser Electricity 11 Expired
US7447245B2 Optically pumped semiconductor laser pumped optical parametric oscillator Electricity 10 Active
US6438153B1 High-power external-cavity optically-pumped semiconductor lasers Electricity 10 Expired
US7697207B2 High power and high brightness diode-laser array for material processing applications Electricity 9 Active

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