Peter J. Delfyett
45Patents
20h-index
50Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 30, 1988 → Feb 21, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5921926A | Three dimensional optical imaging colposcopy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 273 | Expired |
| US6141577A | Three dimensional optical imaging colposcopy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 245 | Expired |
| US6256328A | Multiwavelength modelocked semiconductor diode laser | Electricity | 116 | Expired |
| US5166818A | Optical pulse-shaping device and method, and optical communications station and method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 103 | Expired |
| US5265107A | Broadband absorber having multiple quantum wells of different thicknesses | Electricity | 102 | Expired |
| US6314115A | Hybrid WDM-TDM optical communication and data link | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US7095772B1 | Extreme chirped/stretched pulsed amplification and laser | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US6671298B1 | Photonic arbitrary waveform generation and RF and microwave synthesis with a modelocked external cavity semi-conductor laser | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US6661816B2 | Multiwavelength modelocked lasers | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US7143769B2 | Controlling pulse energy of an optical amplifier by controlling pump diode current | Human Necessities | 49 | Expired |
| US6801551B1 | Programmable multiwavelength modelocked laser | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US6690686B2 | Method for reducing amplitude noise in multi-wavelength modelocked semiconductor lasers | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US7367969B2 | Ablative material removal with a preset removal rate or volume or depth | Human Necessities | 40 | Expired |
| US4972423A | Method and apparatus for generating ultrashort light pulses | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6735229B1 | Ultralow noise optical clock for high speed sampling applications | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US5546415A | High speed pulse slicer/demultiplexer with gain for use in solid state regenerative amplifier systems | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6647031B2 | Hybrid WDM-TDM optical communication and data link | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US7917039B1 | Signal processing using spectrally phase-encoded optical frequency combs | Electricity | 23 | Active |
| US6072765A | Optical disk readout method using optical coherence tomography and spectral interferometry | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US8805197B2 | Signal processing using spectrally phase encoded optical frequency combs | Electricity | 21 | Active |
| US5652763A | Mode locked laser diode in a high power solid state regenerative amplifier and mount mechanism | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5469454A | Mode locked laser diode in a high power solid state regenerative amplifier and mount mechanism | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US7492795B1 | Ultralow noise mode-locked laser and RF sinewave source | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7561605B1 | Extreme chirped/stretched pulsed amplification and laser | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US7558302B1 | Extreme chirped/stretched pulsed amplification and laser | Electricity | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.