Inventor
WILLNER ALAN E
US36 patents
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UNIV SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
26 patentsUS5546209AAug 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