Robert L. Byer
59Patents
21h-index
59Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 14, 1977 → Jul 9, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4739507A | Diode end pumped laser and harmonic generator using same | Electricity | 98 | Expired |
| US5036220A | Nonlinear optical radiation generator and method of controlling regions of ferroelectric polarization domains in solid state bodies | Physics | 96 | Expired |
| US4809291A | Diode pumped laser and doubling to obtain blue light | Electricity | 72 | Expired |
| US6108121A | Micromachined high reflectance deformable mirror | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US5673281A | Solid state system for frequency conversion using raman-active media and non-linear media | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US4578793A | Solid-state non-planar internally reflecting ring laser | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US4555786A | High power solid state laser | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US4902127A | Eye-safe coherent laser radar | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US5027361A | Efficient laser harmonic generation employing a low-loss external optical resonator | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US4890289A | Fiber coupled diode pumped moving solid state laser | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US4764933A | Diode pumped low doped Nd .sub.3+ glass laser | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US4914663A | Generation of short high peak power pulses from an injection mode-locked Q-switched laser oscillator | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4731787A | Monolithic phasematched laser harmonic generator | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4172663A | Optical wavelength meter | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US4450356A | Frequency-mixed CO.sub.2 laser radar for remote detection of gases in the atmosphere | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6134258A | Transverse-pumped sLAB laser/amplifier | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US4951294A | Diode pumped modelocked solid state laser | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5355247A | Method using a monolithic crystalline material for producing radiation by quasi-phase-matching, diffusion bonded monolithic crystalline material for quasi-phase-matching, and method for fabricating same | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4421721A | Apparatus for growing crystal fibers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US5479430A | Protective coating for solid state slab lasers | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US4386854A | Method and means for optically generating signals for use in monitoring an environment using tomographic techniques | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5027360A | High power continuous wave injection-locked solid state laser | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6480325B1 | Laser light source and image display based on quasi-phasematched nonlinear optical devices | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US4378601A | Slab and holder for face pumped slab laser | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US4701928A | Diode laser pumped co-doped laser | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.