G02B 2006/12152
Mode converter
Official title: {Mode converter}
G02B2006/12152 (Mode converter) appears on 143 US grants and 165 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 165
- Assignees
- 92
- Inventors
- 347
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 |
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| 2014 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 9 | 12 |
| 2017 | 9 | 7 |
| 2018 | 11 | 18 |
| 2019 | 17 | 14 |
| 2020 | 14 | 15 |
| 2021 | 13 | 14 |
| 2022 | 10 | 15 |
| 2023 | 9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 16 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14 |
| 2026 | 7 | 7 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Waveguide mode converter20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243960 A1NGK Insulators, Ltd.
- Spot-Size Converter for High Optical Input Power13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235809 A1Ciena Corporation
- Spot Size Converter for Adapting the Diameter and/or the Shape of a Mode Field of an Optical Component and Method of Fabricating a Spot Size Converter16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202608 A1Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Polarization rotating device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202679 A1Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical waveguide multimode to single mode transformer55US 6,580,850 B1Applied WDM, Inc. · 2003
- Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two waveguides25US 10,663,663 B2Ciena Corporation · 2020
- Optical coupler22US 9,348,099 B2Intel Corporation · 2016
- Interferometer and sensor based on bimodal optical waveguides, and detection method21US 8,279,445 B2Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas · 2012
- Photonic integration platform20US 9,274,275 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2016