G02B 2006/12171
Using a laser beam
Official title: {using a laser beam}
G02B2006/12171 (Using a laser beam) appears on 38 US grants and 41 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 38
- Published applications
- 41
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 129
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method to reduce light propagation losses in optical glasses and optical waveguide fabricated by same228US 5,235,662 AEastman Kodak Company · 1993
- Femtosecond laser writing of glass, including borosilicate, sulfide, and lead glasses112US 6,573,026 B1Corning Incorporated · 2003
- Method of forming an optical channel waveguide by gettering56US 5,196,041 AThe Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · 1993
- Laser beam annealing diffuser45US 4,305,640 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1981
- Optical device having modified transmission characteristics by localized thermal treatment35US 6,442,311 B1Agere Systems Guardian Corp. · 2002