Paul Colbourne
64Patents
16h-index
62Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 30, 1988 → Mar 30, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6519065B1 | Chromatic dispersion compensation device | Electricity | 157 | Expired |
| US5798859A | Method and device for wavelength locking | Electricity | 130 | Expired |
| US6654564B1 | Tunable dispersion compensator | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US9250391B2 | Multicast optical switch | Physics | 61 | Active |
| US6498872B2 | Optical configuration for a dynamic gain equalizer and a configurable add/drop multiplexer | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5915063A | Variable optical attenuator | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US6125220A | Interferometric optical device including a resonant optical cavity | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6262822A | Circuit for monitoring optical signals | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US6487334B2 | Optical switch | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4942306A | Fibre optic sensor for the continuous measurement liquids level and other parameters | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US5666225A | Multi-pass etalon filter | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6560252B1 | Method and device for wavelength locking | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5896193A | Apparatus for testing an optical component | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US6040932A | Method and circuit for demultiplexing an optical signal | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6118530A | Optical scanning spectrometer | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6462858B1 | Fast attenuator | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US8045854B2 | M×N wavelength selective optical switch | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US6859573B2 | Double pass arrangement for a liquid crystal device | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US8300995B2 | M X N WSS with reduced optics size | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US6353692B1 | Optical switch | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7725027B2 | Multi-unit wavelength dispersive device | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US6018603A | Optical demultiplexing/multiplexing device having a wavelength dependent element | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6940588B2 | Measuring response characteristics of an optical component | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US8233794B2 | Hitless MxN wavelength selective switch | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US6061124A | Apparatus and method for generation of optical signals | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.