G02B 6/262
Optical details of coupling light into, or out of, or between fibre
Official title: {Optical details of coupling light into, or out of, or between fibre ends, e.g. special fibre end shapes or associated optical elements}
G02B6/262 (Optical details of coupling light into, or out of, or between fibre) appears on 1,723 US grants and 1,749 published applications in this corpus.
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