X. Steve Yao
34Patents
20h-index
7Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 5, 1995 → May 19, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.