Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Yan Sun

34Patents
12h-index
64Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 16, 1995 → Jun 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6049417A Wide band optical amplifier Electricity 64 Expired
US5900969A Broadband flat gain optical amplifier Electricity 62 Expired
US6094298A Erbium-doped fiber amplifier with automatic gain control Electricity 51 Expired
US6049418A Noise figure in optical amplifiers with a split-band architecture Electricity 50 Expired
US5900968A Method of fast gain control in WDM optical networks Electricity 44 Expired
US6025941A Stable wavelength division multiplex ring network Electricity 39 Expired
US6341034B1 Optical amplifier system with transient control using spectrally filtered input Electricity 36 Expired
US6498677B1 Optical amplifier systems with transient control Electricity 30 Expired
US6417961B1 Optical amplifiers with dispersion compensation Electricity 18 Expired
US10345246B2 Dark field wafer nano-defect inspection system with a singular beam Physics 18 Active
US6008932A Erbium-doped fiber amplifier with automatic gain control Electricity 16 Expired
US6377396B1 Optical amplifiers with variable optical attenuation for use in fiber-optic communications systems Electricity 13 Expired
US6602002B1 High capacity optical transmission arrangement Electricity 8 Expired
US6381560B1 Methods of modeling erbium doped fiber amplifiers Electricity 7 Expired
US6049416A Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers with desired gain-bandwidth characteristics Electricity 5 Expired
US6671466B1 Distortion compensation in optically amplified lightwave communication systems Electricity 5 Expired
US6473212B1 Lightwave communication systems using semiconductor optical amplifiers Electricity 4 Expired
US6501870B1 System and method for reducing effects of optical impairments in optically amplified lightwave communication systems Electricity 3 Expired
US10254521B2 Optical collimator for LED lights Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 2 Active
US10574028B2 Digitally integrated self-trained pre-distortion curve finder for linearly frequency swept semiconductor laser systems Electricity 1 Active
US9326315B2 Area-limited self-organized network management method, communications apparatus, and system Electricity 1 Active
US9226336B2 Wireless network area limiting method and system based on near field communication Electricity 1 Active
US5627852A Semiconductor laser geometry for broad-angle far-field addressing Electricity 1 Expired
US9055436B2 Transmitting device, receiving device, wireless communication system and method for controlling wireless communication system Electricity 1 Active
US11398012B2 Medical imaging method and system Physics 1 Active

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