G02B 6/107
Subwavelength-diameter waveguides
Official title: {Subwavelength-diameter waveguides, e.g. nanowires}
G02B6/107 (Subwavelength-diameter waveguides) appears on 170 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 201
- Assignees
- 139
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 6 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light-driven nanodrones15 Sep 2026US 12,736,744 B2Julius-Maximilians-UniversitäT WüRzburg
- Optical waveguide, quantum computing device, and method for manufacturing optical waveguide15 Sep 2026US 12,736,745 B2Fujitsu Limited
- Photonic wirebond loopback evanescent coupler11 Aug 2026US 12,704,681 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- On-chip integration of optical components with photonic wire bonds and/or lenses16 Jun 2026US 12,658,668 B2The University of British Columbia
- Multiwavelength optical sources5 May 2026US 12,619,035 B2Freedom Photonics LLC
- Photonic wire bonding methods and processes for the advanced packaging of photonic devices and systems2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184628 A1Aeponyx Inc.
- Photonic wire bonding methods and processes for the advanced packaging of photonic devices and systems2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184629 A1Aeponyx Inc.
- Optical interconnection interface, processor and server27 Nov 2025US 2025/0362457 A1Ieit Systems Co., Ltd.
- Photonic wirebond loopback evanescent coupler31 Jul 2025US 2025/0244535 A1BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Optoelectronic package19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199254 A1Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nanowires, nanostructures and devices fabricated therefrom394US 6,882,051 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2005
- Methods of fabricating nanostructures and nanowires and devices fabricated therefrom247US 6,996,147 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2006
- Sub-wavelength aperture arrays with enhanced light transmission137US 5,973,316 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus and associated methods105US 8,137,981 B2Nokia Corporation · 2012
- Near-field scanning optical microscope having a sub-wavelength aperture array for enhanced light transmission102US 6,052,238 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 2000