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Xiaotian Steve Yao
Also filed as: YAO XIAOTIAN S · YAO XIAOTIAN STEVE
62 granted patents·9 pending applications·2,045 citations·filing 1995–2024
99Inventor score
Files withGEN PHOTONICS CORP19YAO XIAOTIAN STEVE19GENERAL PHOTONICS CORP11CALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN8NUVISION PHOTONICS INC2
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71 records- 0199US6795481B2Non-spherical whispering-gallery-mode microcavityCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 21, 2004·144 cites·39 claims
- 0299US6567436B1Opto-electronic oscillators having optical resonatorsCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 2000·Granted May 20, 2003·179 cites·37 claims
- 0399US6487233B2Fiber-coupled microsphere laserCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 26, 2002·126 cites·15 claims
- 0498US6873631B2Integrated opto-electronic oscillators having optical resonatorsCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 29, 2005·105 cites·16 claims
- 0597US6417957B1Opto-electronic devices for processing and transmitting RF signals based on brillouin selective sideband amplificationCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 9, 2002·133 cites·36 claims
- 0696US5777778AMulti-Loop opto-electronic microwave oscillator with a wide tuning rangeCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 7, 1998·190 cites·87 claims
- 0796US5723856AOpto-electronic oscillator having a positive feedback with an open loop gain greater than oneCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 3, 1998·243 cites·41 claims
- 0895US5751747ALinear swept frequency generatorCALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN·Filed 1995·Granted May 12, 1998·90 cites·31 claims
- 0994US10724922B1Complete characterization of polarization-maintaining fibers using distributed polarization analysisGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 28, 2020·14 cites·14 claims
- 1094US7466471B2Optical instrument and measurements using multiple tunable optical polarization rotatorsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 16, 2008·20 cites·6 claims
- 1193US8000610B2Monitoring mechanisms for optical systemsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 16, 2011·20 cites·11 claims
- 1293US6687423B1Optical frequency-division multiplexer and demultiplexerFiled 2001·Granted Feb 3, 2004·39 cites·17 claims
- 1393US6493474B1Fiber devices based on fiber squeezer polarization controllersGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 10, 2002·51 cites·10 claims
- 1493US6487336B1WDM channel equalization and controlGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 26, 2002·62 cites·29 claims
- 1592US11619783B2Sine-cosine optical frequency detection devices for photonics integrated circuits and applications in LiDAR and other distributed optical sensingYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 4, 2023·2 cites·32 claims
- 1692US9476699B2Measurements of strain, stress and temperature by using 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional distributed fiber-optic sensors based on sensing by polarization maintaining fiber of distributed polarization crosstalk distributionGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 25, 2016·6 cites·20 claims
- 1792US7723670B1Optical differential group delay module with folded optical pathGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2008·Granted May 25, 2010·16 cites·20 claims
- 1892US7382962B1Fiber stretcher apparatusGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 3, 2008·28 cites·25 claims
- 1992US5654818APolarization independent electro-optic modulatorUS ARMY·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 5, 1997·132 cites·9 claims
- 2091US7952711B1Waveplate analyzer based on multiple tunable optical polarization rotatorsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2008·Granted May 31, 2011·18 cites·14 claims
- 2191US6498869B1Devices for depolarizing polarized lightFiled 1999·Granted Dec 24, 2002·83 cites·52 claims
- 2290US10324002B2Devices and methods for characterization of distributed fiber bend and stressGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 18, 2019·4 cites·7 claims
- 2390US8599385B2Measuring distributed polarization crosstalk in polarization maintaining fiber and optical birefringent materialCHEN XIAOJUN·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 3, 2013·11 cites·26 claims
- 2489US8073326B2Optical polarization division multiplexing in optical communicationYAN LIANSHAN·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 6, 2011·20 cites·29 claims
- 2589US7945130B2Mode scrambling apparatus for multimode fiberGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2007·Granted May 17, 2011·13 cites·20 claims
- 2689US7534990B2Compact optical delay devicesGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2007·Granted May 19, 2009·20 cites·25 claims
- 2789US6480637B1Fiber squeezer polarization controller with low activation lossGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 12, 2002·38 cites·17 claims
- 2888US7233720B2Devices based on optical waveguides with adjustable Bragg gratingsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 19, 2007·25 cites·5 claims
- 2987US9823075B2Non-interferometric optical gyroscope based on polarization sensingYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 21, 2017·9 cites·8 claims
- 3086US6795616B2Control of guided light in a waveguideGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 21, 2004·21 cites·1 claims
- 3185US7391977B2Monitoring mechanisms for optical systemsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 24, 2008·25 cites·17 claims
- 3285US6661941B1Frequency locking of tunable lasers by using a birefringent optical cavityFiled 2002·Granted Dec 9, 2003·31 cites·23 claims
- 3385US6628861B1Control of guided light in waveguide using external adjustable gratingGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 30, 2003·49 cites·10 claims
- 3484US11333688B2Reflective current and magnetic sensors based on optical sensing with integrated temperature sensingYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2017·Granted May 17, 2022·2 cites·7 claims
- 3584US9733133B2Faraday current and temperature sensorsYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 15, 2017·4 cites·37 claims
- 3684US6836327B1In-line optical polarimeter based on integration of free-space optical elementsGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 28, 2004·26 cites·20 claims
- 3783US10895477B2Sine-cosine optical frequency encoder devices based on optical polarization propertiesGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 19, 2021·2 cites·34 claims
- 3882US9829410B2Distributed fiber bend and stress measurement for determining optical fiber reliability by multi-wavelength optical reflectometryGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 28, 2017·2 cites·6 claims
- 3981US11169019B2Distributed fiber optic acoustic sensorLUNA INNOVATIONS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 9, 2021·2 cites·18 claims
- 4081US9719883B2Devices and methods for characterization of distributed fiber bend and stressGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 1, 2017·4 cites·15 claims
- 4181US9632006B2Distributed fiber bend and stress measurement for determining optical fiber reliability by multi-wavelength optical reflectometryGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 25, 2017·4 cites·14 claims
- 4281US8345238B2Measuring optical spectral property of light based on polarization analysisGEN PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Jan 1, 2013·10 cites·12 claims
- 4378US9041935B2Measuring polarization crosstalk in optical birefringent materials and devices based on reduction of line broadening caused by birefringent dispersionYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2012·Granted May 26, 2015·4 cites·18 claims
- 4477US8422882B1Monitoring polarization-mode dispersion and signal-to-noise ratio in optical signals based on polarization analysisYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 16, 2013·5 cites·14 claims
- 4576US11293757B2Non-interferometric optical gyroscope based on polarization sensing and implementations of closed loop control allowing for slow phase modulationYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 5, 2022·2 cites·26 claims
- 4676US10281342B2Faraday current and temperature sensorsYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2017·Granted May 7, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 4773US11650296B2Optical sensing based on wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) light at different wavelengths in light detection and ranging LiDAR systemsYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2019·Granted May 16, 2023·2 cites·34 claims
- 4873US9689666B21-dimensional and 2-dimensional distributed fiber-optic strain and stress sensors based on polarization maintaining fiber using distributed polarization crosstalk analyzer as an interrogatorGENERAL PHOTONICS CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 27, 2017·2 cites·8 claims
- 4971US11268811B2Non-interferometric optical gyroscope based on polarization sensingNUVISION PHOTONICS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 8, 2022·1 cites·10 claims
- 5071US2025076118A1Techniques for characterizing laser spectral linewidths of single-frequency lasers with sigmoid functions of observation timeYAO XIAOTIAN STEVE·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
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