Tom Luk — 22 Patents at Ciena | Patent Leaderboard

Tom Luk has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in December 2025. Tom Luk ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Tom Luk in Ottawa, ON, CA.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12494842	Optical link optimization based on signal and interferer power discrimination	David W. Boertjes	2025-12-09
12149291	Coherent receiver having low VOA-induced phase changes	Michel Poulin, Antoine Bois, François Pelletier, Sean Sebastian O'Keefe	2024-11-19	$24,910,000
11799434	Receiver automatic gain control systems and methods	Ron Hartman	2023-10-24	$10,826,000
11552703	Detecting power of low-bandwidth and broad-bandwidth optical signals	—	2023-01-10	$7,948,000
11404596	Balancing a pair of avalanche photodiodes in a coherent receiver	Michael Vitic, Christopher Edgar Falt	2022-08-02	$52,767,000
11099065	Method and system for balancing optical receiver	Christopher Edgar Falt, Sean Sebastian O'Keefe	2021-08-24	$11,375,000
10911011	Coherent optical modem with method to discover and control an amplifier's automatic gain control (AGC) loop bandwidth	Michael Vitic, Ron Hartman	2021-02-02	$35,903,000
10715169	Coarse-fine gain-tracking loop and method of operating	Sadok Aouini, Naim Ben-Hamida, Christopher Kurowski, Mohammad Honarparvar, Soheyl Ziabakhsh Shalmani	2020-07-14	$16,720,000
10658994	Method to discover and control an amplifier's automatic gain control (AGC) loop bandwidth	Michael Vitic, Ron Hartman	2020-05-19	$82,708,000
10594281	Receiver automatic gain control systems and methods for asymmetrical or unbalanced constellations	Ron Hartman	2020-03-17	$28,801,000
10209127	Method and system for balancing optical receiver	Christopher Edgar Falt, Sean Sebastian O'Keefe	2019-02-19	$11,933,000
9625662	Method and system having a transimpedance amplifier circuit with a differential current monitoring device for monitoring optical receiver circuit	Christopher Edgar Falt	2017-04-18	$4,906,000
8306419	Techniques for controlling a light source in a wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network	John Bainbridge	2012-11-06
8306422	WDM PON protection scheme using a dual port arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)	John Bainbridge, Giovanni Manto, James Goodchild	2012-11-06
8170074	Tracking injection seeding power based on back facet monitoring (BFM) of an injection seeded laser	Bin Cao, Douglas James Beckett, Rong Chen	2012-05-01
8126332	Method of wavelength alignment for a wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network	John Bainbridge, Bin Cao	2012-02-28
7940822	Tracking injection seeding power based on back facet monitoring (BFM) of an injection seeded laser	Bin Cao, Douglas James Beckett, Rong Chen	2011-05-10
6980140	Flash ADC receiver with reduced errors	Andy Rowland, Sevgui Hadjihassan	2005-12-27	$14,559,000
6871304	Method and apparatus for adjusting receiver voltage threshold and phase sampling point using FEC counts	Sevgui Hadjihassan	2005-03-22	$12,108,000
6785308	Spectral conditioning system and method	Peter Dyer, Jean-Philippe Martel	2004-08-31	$26,799,000
6519302	Method and apparatus for regenerating data	Paul Alan Bruce	2003-02-11	$14,755,000
6188737	Method and apparatus for regenerating data	Paul Alan Bruce	2001-02-13	$203,274,000

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