Inventor · Longmont, CO, US

Sterling Backus

13Patents
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10Co-inventors
57Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 18, 1996 → Feb 15, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7072101B2 Downchirped pulse amplification Electricity 29 Expired
US5644424A Laser amplifier and method Electricity 27 Expired
US6804287B2 Ultrashort pulse amplification in cryogenically cooled amplifiers Electricity 8 Expired
US7242520B2 Method for optimizing output in ultrashort-pulse multipass laser amplifiers with selective use of a spectral filter Electricity 6 Active
US9899791B2 Single pass amplification of dissipative soliton-like seed pulses Electricity 1 Active
US8976821B2 Anisotropic beam pumping of a Kerr lens modelocked laser Electricity 1 Active
US11209717B2 Two-color wave mixing upconversion in structured waveguides Physics 0 Active
US11815782B2 Mid-infrared broadband laser using cascaded nonlinearities in mid-infrared fiber and nonlinear crystal Physics 0 Active
US10367329B2 Direct diode pumped Ti:sapphire lasers and amplifiers Electricity 0 Active
US10303040B2 Integrated wavelength conversion and laser source Electricity 0 Active
US10530120B2 Direct diode pumped ti:sapphire lasers and amplifiers Electricity 0 Active
US11101615B2 Use of electronically controlled polarization elements for the initiation and optimization of laser mode-locking Electricity 0 Active
US9425581B2 Anisotropic beam pumping of a Kerr lens modelocked laser Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.