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Alan E. Willner
Also filed as: WILLNER ALAN · WILLNER ALAN E · WILLNER ALAN ELI
47 granted patents·8 pending applications·959 citations·filing 1989–2024
98Inventor score
Files withUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA35LYTELOOP TECH LLC7LIGHTCHIP INC2UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LA2HUANG HAO1
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55 records- 0196US9110219B1On-chip two-octave supercontinuum generation enabled by advanced chromatic dispersion tailoring in slotted waveguidesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 18, 2015·36 cites·17 claims
- 0293US9768909B2Systems and techniques for orbital angular momentum based reconfigurable switchingHUANG HAO·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 19, 2017·18 cites·13 claims
- 0392US5982963ATunable nonlinearly chirped gratingUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 9, 1999·189 cites·52 claims
- 0490US9086609B1Mirrorless-oscillation in a waveguide using non-degenerate four-wave mixingUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 21, 2015·7 cites·7 claims
- 0590US8976445B1Optical tunable tapped-delay-lines using wavelength conversion and chromatic dispersion based delaysUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 10, 2015·11 cites·20 claims
- 0690US6915040B2Devices and applications based on tunable wave-guiding bragg gratings with nonlinear group delaysUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 5, 2005·53 cites·23 claims
- 0789US6714742B1Polarization-division multiplexing based on power encoding of different polarization channelsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 30, 2004·37 cites·22 claims
- 0888US6330383B1Disperson compensation by using tunable nonlinearly-chirped gratingsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 11, 2001·114 cites·80 claims
- 0987US6011885AIntegrated bi-directional gradient refractive index wavelength division multiplexerLIGHTCHIP INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 4, 2000·87 cites·51 claims
- 1085US6453095B2Tuning of optical dispersion by using a tunable fiber bragg gratingUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 17, 2002·30 cites·74 claims
- 1184US6542650B2Polarization-mode dispersion emulatorUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 1, 2003·40 cites·25 claims
- 1282US7206517B1Monitoring and in-line compensation of polarization dependent loss for lightwave systemsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LA·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 17, 2007·27 cites·15 claims
- 1382US7035538B2Monitoring optical dispersion based on vestigial side band optical filteringUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 25, 2006·25 cites·18 claims
- 1482US6621627B2WDM fiber amplifiers using sampled bragg gratingsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 16, 2003·20 cites·20 claims
- 1581US10411811B2Systems and techniques for communication using combined orbital angular momentum and multiple-input-multiple-output processingUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 10, 2019·5 cites·20 claims
- 1681US6646774B1Intra-bit polarization diversity modulationFiled 2002·Granted Nov 11, 2003·31 cites·30 claims
- 1780US10291300B2Systems and techniques for communication using multiple-input-multiple-output processing of orbital angular momentum modesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2016·Granted May 14, 2019·4 cites·18 claims
- 1880US6603890B2Compensation for polarization-mode dispersion in multiple wavelength-division multiplexed channels without separate composition for each individual channelUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 5, 2003·27 cites·18 claims
- 1980US6400869B2Tunable compensation for polarization-mode dispersion using a birefringent nonlinearly-chirped bragg grating in a dual-pass configurationUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 4, 2002·26 cites·24 claims
- 2079US9780872B2Adaptive optics based simultaneous turbulence compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beamsREN YONGXIONG·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 3, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 2178US8483529B2Waveguide-based dispersion deviceZHANG LIN·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 9, 2013·4 cites·33 claims
- 2277US6654103B2Compensation and control of both first-order and higher-order polarization-mode dispersionUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 25, 2003·18 cites·23 claims
- 2377US5546209AOne-to-many simultaneous and reconfigurable optical two-dimensional plane interconnections using multiple wavelength, vertical cavity, surface-emitting lasers and wavelength-dependent detector planesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 13, 1996·61 cites·26 claims
- 2476US10914959B2Spatial light structuring using a combination of multiple orthogonal orbital angular momentum beams with complex coefficientsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 9, 2021·2 cites·14 claims
- 2575US9166721B2Reconfigurable optical transmitterUNIV SOUTH CALIFORNIA·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 20, 2015·4 cites·13 claims
- 2672US6388785B2Optical compensation for dispersion-induced power fading in optical transmission of double-sideband signalsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted May 14, 2002·17 cites·19 claims
- 2771US7369766B2Optically boosted routerUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2002·Granted May 6, 2008·15 cites·17 claims
- 2869US2022113472A1Systems and methods for building, operating and controlling multiple regenerators and transceivers using shared common componentsLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 2968US9625320B2Automatically locked homodyne detectionUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 18, 2017·2 cites·23 claims
- 3067US11190858B2Data in motion storage system and methodLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 30, 2021·1 cites·79 claims
- 3166US11243355B2Systems and methods for building, operating and controlling multiple amplifiers, regenerators and transceivers using shared common componentsLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 8, 2022·1 cites·50 claims
- 3266US6459479B1Optical detection of a fiber span with high polarization-mode dispersion in a fiber systemUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 1, 2002·11 cites·27 claims
- 3365US6453093B2Tunable optical dispersion-slope compensation based on a nonlinearly-chirped bragg gratingUNIVERISITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFO·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 17, 2002·12 cites·14 claims
- 3463US10812880B2Data in motion storage system and methodLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 20, 2020·1 cites·30 claims
- 3556US11467759B2System and method for extending path length of a wave signal using angle multiplexingLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 11, 2022·0 cites·60 claims
- 3656US7616618B2Code cycle modulation in optical code division multiple access systemsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 10, 2009·2 cites·21 claims
- 3754US2025062834A1Optical half-adder and averaging data channels using nonlinear wave mixingUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3853US8800375B2Sweep-free stimulated Brillouin scattering-based fiber optical sensingVOSKOBOINIK ASHER·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 12, 2014·1 cites·30 claims
- 3952US6751416B2Reconfigurable optical recognition of bit information in a digital data stream with different bit ratesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 15, 2004·3 cites·17 claims
- 4050US10789009B2System and method for extending path length of a wave signal using angle multiplexingLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 29, 2020·0 cites·48 claims
- 4149US6480648B1Technique for detecting the status of WDM optical signalsLIGHTCHIP INC·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 12, 2002·2 cites·20 claims
- 4248US12250502B2Remotely biasing, controlling, and monitoring a network routing node based on remotely provided optical signalsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2023·Granted Mar 11, 2025·0 cites·8 claims
- 4346US2008038000A1Monitoring and in-line compensation of polarization dependent loss for lightwave systemsUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LA·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4443US2024007186A1Turbulence-resilient self-coherent free-space optical communications using automatic pilot-assisted optoelectronic beam mixing of many modesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4542US11106111B2Multiple Kerr-frequency-comb generation using different lines from a remote Kerr combUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 31, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 4642US2004114857A1Tunable pulse width generation of return-to-zero format for system optimizationFiled 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 4741US11361794B2Apparatus and method for storing wave signals in a cavityLYTELOOP TECH LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 14, 2022·0 cites·50 claims
- 4841US2024388362A1Multiplexed transmission by optical beam transformationUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4940US10277326B2Tunable optical channel slicing and stitching to enable dynamic bandwidth allocationUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 30, 2019·0 cites·17 claims
- 5037US10750257B2Data encoding and channel hopping using orbital angular momentum modesUNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 18, 2020·0 cites·18 claims
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