Olav Solgaard
81Patents
20h-index
85Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 13, 1991 → Jul 25, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.