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WILLNER ALAN E

US36 patents
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UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

26 patents
US5546209AAug 13, 1996

One-to-many simultaneous and reconfigurable optical two-dimensional plane interconnections using multiple wavelength, vertical cavity, surface-emitting lasers and wavelength-dependent detector planes

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA61 citations95
US9110219B1Aug 18, 2015

On-chip two-octave supercontinuum generation enabled by advanced chromatic dispersion tailoring in slotted waveguides

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA36 citations94
US6330383B1Dec 11, 2001

Disperson compensation by using tunable nonlinearly-chirped gratings

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA114 citations94
US7035538B2Apr 25, 2006

Monitoring optical dispersion based on vestigial side band optical filtering

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA25 citations92
US6915040B2Jul 5, 2005

Devices and applications based on tunable wave-guiding bragg gratings with nonlinear group delays

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA53 citations92
US6621627B2Sep 16, 2003

WDM fiber amplifiers using sampled bragg gratings

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA20 citations92
US6453095B2Sep 17, 2002

Tuning of optical dispersion by using a tunable fiber bragg grating

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA30 citations91
US6400869B2Jun 4, 2002

Tunable compensation for polarization-mode dispersion using a birefringent nonlinearly-chirped bragg grating in a dual-pass configuration

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA26 citations91
US6714742B1Mar 30, 2004

Polarization-division multiplexing based on power encoding of different polarization channels

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA37 citations89
US6603890B2Aug 5, 2003

Compensation for polarization-mode dispersion in multiple wavelength-division multiplexed channels without separate composition for each individual channel

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA27 citations89
US6542650B2Apr 1, 2003

Polarization-mode dispersion emulator

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA40 citations88
US9086609B1Jul 21, 2015

Mirrorless-oscillation in a waveguide using non-degenerate four-wave mixing

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA7 citations84
US6654103B2Nov 25, 2003

Compensation and control of both first-order and higher-order polarization-mode dispersion

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA18 citations83
US6388785B2May 14, 2002

Optical compensation for dispersion-induced power fading in optical transmission of double-sideband signals

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA17 citations79
US8976445B1Mar 10, 2015

Optical tunable tapped-delay-lines using wavelength conversion and chromatic dispersion based delays

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA11 citations78
US7369766B2May 6, 2008

Optically boosted router

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA15 citations77
US10291300B2May 14, 2019

Systems and techniques for communication using multiple-input-multiple-output processing of orbital angular momentum modes

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA4 citations73
US6459479B1Oct 1, 2002

Optical detection of a fiber span with high polarization-mode dispersion in a fiber system

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA11 citations72
US10411811B2Sep 10, 2019

Systems and techniques for communication using combined orbital angular momentum and multiple-input-multiple-output processing

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA5 citations70
US9625320B2Apr 18, 2017

Automatically locked homodyne detection

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA2 citations64
US6751416B2Jun 15, 2004

Reconfigurable optical recognition of bit information in a digital data stream with different bit rates

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA3 citations57
US7616618B2Nov 10, 2009

Code cycle modulation in optical code division multiple access systems

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA2 citations56
US10270536B2Apr 23, 2019

Phase-sensitive regeneration without a phase-locked loop using brillouin amplification

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA0 citations43
US11652556B2May 16, 2023

Optical mitigation of inter-channel crosstalk for WDM channels

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA0 citations41
US12250502B2Mar 11, 2025

Remotely biasing, controlling, and monitoring a network routing node based on remotely provided optical signals

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA0 citations40
US10750257B2Aug 18, 2020

Data encoding and channel hopping using orbital angular momentum modes

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA0 citations37

LIGHTCHIP INC

1 patent

UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LA

1 patent

(unassigned)

1 patent

HUANG HAO

1 patent

UNIV COLUMBIA

1 patent

UNIVERISITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFO

1 patent

REN YONGXIONG

1 patent

UNIV SOUTH CALIFORNIA

1 patent

ZHANG LIN

1 patent

VOSKOBOINIK ASHER

1 patent