Peter S. Whitney
40Patents
13h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 25, 2000 → Dec 20, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6836366B1 | Integrated tunable fabry-perot filter and method of making same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 73 | Expired |
| US6341039B1 | Flexible membrane for tunable fabry-perot filter | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6608711B2 | Silicon on insulator optical membrane structure for fabry-perot MOEMS filter | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US8515221B2 | Silicon optical bench OCT probe for medical imaging | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Active |
| US8781287B2 | Silicon optical bench OCT probe for medical imaging | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Active |
| US6407376B1 | Optical channel monitoring system with self-calibration | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US8994954B2 | System and method for stabilizing mode locked swept laser for OCT medical imaging | Electricity | 23 | Active |
| US6525880B2 | Integrated tunable fabry-perot filter and method of making same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US6625372B1 | Mounting and alignment structures for optical components | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6905255B2 | Integrated optical system monitoring system | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6416937B1 | Optical component installation process | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6643075B2 | Reentrant-walled optical system template and process for optical system fabrication using same | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6559464B1 | Optical system active alignment process including alignment structure attach, position search, and deformation | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US6549548B2 | Interferometric filter wavelength meter and controller | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6381066B1 | Integrated semiconductor optical amplifier system | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6776538B2 | MEMS tunable optical filter system with moisture getter for frequency stability | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7095776B2 | Interferometric filter wavelength meter and controller | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6459710B1 | Reflector for directing front facet light to monitor diode | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US7249894B1 | System and process for post alignment polarization extinction ratio compensation in semiconductor laser system | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US8675293B2 | SOI lens structure for medical probe | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US10951009B2 | Tunable VCSEL polarization control through dissimilar die bonding | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US7003211B2 | Optical system production system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US10951007B2 | Optically pumped tunable VCSEL employing geometric isolation | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US7076860B2 | Optical system manufacturing and alignment system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Expired |
| US8660164B2 | Method and system for avoiding package induced failure in swept semiconductor source | Electricity | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.