G02B 26/103
Having movable or deformable optical fibres, light guides or waveguides as scanning
Official title: {having movable or deformable optical fibres, light guides or waveguides as scanning elements (light guides per se G02B6/00)}
G02B26/103 (Having movable or deformable optical fibres, light guides or waveguides as scanning) appears on 380 US grants and 412 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for optical imaging with means for controlling the longitudinal range of the sample1,199US 5,321,501 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements1,018US 5,459,570 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1995
- Miniature image acquistion system using a scanning resonant waveguide295US 6,294,775 B1University of Washington · 2001
- Image acquisition with depth enhancement208US 6,563,105 B2University of Washington · 2003
- Oscillating fiber optic display and imager201US 5,727,098 A1998