Inventor · Diamond Bar, CA, US

X. Steve Yao

34Patents
20h-index
7Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 5, 1995 → May 19, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5929430A Coupled opto-electronic oscillator Electricity 127 Expired
US5917179A Brillouin opto-electronic oscillators Electricity 122 Expired
US6178036A Opto-electronic devices and systems based on brillouin selective sideband amplification Electricity 101 Expired
US6594061B2 Acceleration-insensitive opto-electronic oscillators Electricity 95 Expired
US6535328B2 Methods and devices based on brillouin selective sideband amplification Electricity 94 Expired
US6476959B2 Optical pulse synthesis using brillouin selective sideband amplification Electricity 84 Expired
US5561726A Apparatus and method for connecting polarization sensitive devices Physics 47 Expired
US7067795B1 Methods and systems for dynamic control of polarization of an optical signal Electricity 46 Expired
US6628850B1 Dynamic wavelength-selective grating modulator Electricity 43 Expired
US5978125A Compact programmable photonic variable delay devices Physics 41 Expired
US5796510A Ladder-structured photonic variable delay device Physics 34 Expired
US6576886B1 Dynamic control of polarization of an optical signal Physics 33 Expired
US7027198B2 Generation and analysis of state of polarization using tunable optical polarization rotators Physics 32 Expired
US7218436B2 Optical instrument and measurements using multiple tunable optical polarization rotators Physics 31 Expired
US7436569B2 Polarization measurement and self-calibration based on multiple tunable optical polarization rotators Physics 26 Active
US7343100B2 Optical communications based on optical polarization multiplexing and demultiplexing Electricity 24 Expired
US6628862B1 Thermal-induced waveguide gratings Physics 23 Expired
USRE38809E1 Photonic variable delay devices based on optical birefringence General 21 Expired
US7157687B1 Optical devices with folded optical path designs Physics 20 Expired
US6975454B1 Variable polarization-dependent-loss source Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7265837B1 Sensitive polarization monitoring and controlling Physics 18 Expired
US6873783B1 Fiber devices with transverse-pressure-controlled squeezers Physics 17 Expired
US6754404B2 Transverse-pressure-controlled fiber devices Physics 17 Expired
US7227686B1 Tunable PMD emulators and compensators Physics 16 Expired
USRE38735E1 Compact programmable photonic variable delay devices General 16 Expired

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