Michael G. Wickham
31Patents
17h-index
26Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 19, 1996 → Mar 19, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7436588B2 | Method and system for hybrid coherent and incoherent diffractive beam combining | Electricity | 59 | Active |
| US5852687A | Integrated optical time delay unit | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US6094285A | All optical RF signal channelizer | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6708003B1 | Optical energy transmission system utilizing precise phase and amplitude control | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6301421A | Photonic crystal fiber lasers and amplifiers for high power | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US6678294B1 | Distributed feedback laser apparatus for avoiding stimulated brillouin scattering | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6396801B1 | Arbitrary waveform modem | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6208773A | Addressable, semiconductor adaptable Bragg gratings (ASABG) | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5781327A | Optically efficient high dynamic range electro-optic modulator | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6093927A | Automated precision wavelength control for fiber optic Bragg grating writing | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US7339727B1 | Method and system for diffractive beam combining using DOE combiner with passive phase control | Electricity | 26 | Active |
| US7440174B2 | Coherent fiber diffractive optical element beam combiner | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US7088743B2 | Laser source comprising amplifier and adaptive wavefront/polarization driver | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6972887B2 | High energy arbitrary waveform source | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US7346085B1 | Multi-stage method and system for coherent diffractive beam combining | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US7283702B2 | Method and apparatus for optimizing the target intensity distribution transmitted from a fiber coupled array | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6243515A | Apparatus for optically pumping an optical fiber from the side | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7502395B2 | Pulsed coherent fiber array and method | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US6016371A | Optical RF signal processing | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US5898804A | Precision wavelength control for automated fiber optic Bragg grating writing | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US7468832B2 | Method and system for coherent beam combining using an integrated diffractive beam combiner and sampler | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US6366598B1 | High power single mode semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers using 2D Bragg gratings | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US7120175B2 | Scalable harmonic laser source and method | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US7065110B2 | Scalable wavelength shifted laser source and method | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US8934748B2 | Optical fiber systems and methods | Electricity | 7 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.