Inventor · Pasadena, CA, US

Lutfollah Maleki

58Patents
27h-index
25Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 7, 1993 → Aug 22, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5723856A Opto-electronic oscillator having a positive feedback with an open loop gain greater than one Physics 151 Expired
US6567436B1 Opto-electronic oscillators having optical resonators Electricity 114 Expired
US6795481B2 Non-spherical whispering-gallery-mode microcavity Electricity 98 Expired
US7173749B2 Opto-electronic feedback for stabilizing oscillators Electricity 93 Expired
US6487233B2 Fiber-coupled microsphere laser Electricity 90 Expired
US6873631B2 Integrated opto-electronic oscillators having optical resonators Electricity 77 Expired
US7460746B2 Tunable multi-loop opto-electronic oscillator with tunable RF or microwave filter based on optical filtering Electricity 61 Active
US7187870B2 Tunable balanced opto-electronic filters and applications in opto-electronic oscillators Electricity 59 Expired
US7389053B1 Tunable filtering of RF or microwave signals based on optical filtering in Mach-Zehnder configuration Electricity 57 Active
US7283707B1 Evanescently coupling light between waveguides and whispering-gallery mode optical resonators Physics 57 Expired
US7092591B2 Tunable optical filters having electro-optic whispering-gallery-mode resonators Physics 57 Expired
US6987914B2 Optical filter having coupled whispering-gallery-mode resonators Physics 55 Expired
US7050212B2 Active mode-locked lasers and other photonic devices using electro-optic whispering gallery mode resonators Electricity 54 Expired
US6928091B1 Opto-electronic oscillator including a tunable electro-optic filter Electricity 53 Expired
US6901189B1 Graded-index whispering gallery mode resonators Physics 52 Expired
US7369722B2 Coupled and non-coupled opto-electronic oscillators with enhanced performance Electricity 52 Active
US7024069B2 Tunable resonator-based devices for producing variable delays and narrow spectral linewidths Physics 52 Expired
US7061335B2 Processing of signals with regenerative opto-electronic circuits Electricity 52 Expired
US7440651B1 Single mode whispering-gallery-mode resonator Electricity 48 Expired
US6922497B1 Whispering gallery mode resonators based on radiation-sensitive materials Physics 48 Expired
US7043117B2 Electro-optical modulation and other optical applications using poled optical whispering gallery mode resonators Physics 47 Expired
US7587144B2 Tunable radio frequency and microwave photonic filters Physics 47 Active
US6943934B1 Nonlinear optical whispering gallery mode resonators Physics 43 Expired
US8111722B1 Low-noise RF oscillation and optical comb generation based on nonlinear optical resonator Physics 34 Active
US7630417B1 Crystal whispering gallery mode optical resonators Electricity 33 Expired

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