Inventor · Stanford, CA, US

Olav Solgaard

81Patents
20h-index
85Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 13, 1991 → Jul 25, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5311360A Method and apparatus for modulating a light beam Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 612 Expired
US5808797A Method and apparatus for modulating a light beam Performing Operations; Transporting 404 Expired
US5459610A Deformable grating apparatus for modulating a light beam and including means for obviating stiction between grating elements and underlying substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 337 Expired
US6097859A Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 281 Expired
US5677783A Method of making a deformable grating apparatus for modulating a light beam and including means for obviating stiction between grating elements and underlying substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Expired
US6289145A Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 82 Expired
US5867297A Apparatus and method for optical scanning with an oscillatory microelectromechanical system Physics 77 Expired
US6327398A Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 52 Expired
US6935167B1 Harmonic cantilevers and imaging methods for atomic force microscopy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US7881565B2 Device and method using asymmetric optical resonances Performing Operations; Transporting 42 Active
US6374008B1 Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 39 Expired
US6389190B2 Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 39 Expired
US7630589B2 Photonic crystal structure sensor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US7089787B2 Torsional harmonic cantilevers for detection of high frequency force components in atomic force microscopy Physics 35 Expired
US5155617A Electro-optic attenuated total internal reflection modulator and method Physics 25 Expired
US7155087B2 Photonic crystal reflectors/filters and displacement sensing applications Performing Operations; Transporting 23 Expired
US7526148B2 High-sensitivity fiber-compatible optical acoustic sensor Physics 22 Active
US7327914B1 Adaptive optical signal processing with multimode waveguides Physics 21 Expired
US6713367B2 Self-aligned vertical combdrive actuator and method of fabrication Physics 20 Expired
US6246504A Apparatus and method for optical raster-scanning in a micromechanical system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US6643053B2 Piecewise linear spatial phase modulator using dual-mode micromirror arrays for temporal and diffractive fourier optics Physics 19 Expired
US7809219B2 High-sensitivity fiber-compatible optical acoustic sensor Physics 19 Active
US6804429B2 Reconfigurable wavelength multiplexers and filters employing micromirror array in a gires-tournois interferometer Electricity 15 Expired
US8537368B2 Method of detecting an acceleration Performing Operations; Transporting 13 Active
US6922239B2 Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch Electricity 12 Expired

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