G02B 6/27
With polarisation selective and adjusting means
Official title: with polarisation selective and adjusting means
G02B6/27 (With polarisation selective and adjusting means) appears on 1,934 US grants and 1,695 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,934
- Published applications
- 1,695
- Assignees
- 750
- Inventors
- 3,285
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2002 | 85 | 136 |
| 2003 | 119 | 172 |
| 2004 | 120 | 88 |
| 2005 | 85 | 67 |
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| 2024 | 58 | 65 |
| 2025 | 54 | 60 |
| 2026 | 33 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical sensor chip and optical sensing system25 Aug 2026US 12,717,082 B2Silith Technology Pte. Ltd.
- Single polarization circulator25 Aug 2026US 12,717,083 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Optical coupling and mode-selective separation or superposition of optical fields25 Aug 2026US 12,717,086 B2Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Optical isolator based on volume Bragg gratings18 Aug 2026US 12,710,578 B2University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc.
- Grating coupler with high efficiency4 Aug 2026US 12,699,228 B2Apple Inc.
- Low-complexity photonic transceiver8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312689 A1HEPT Lab, Inc.
- Integrated photonic 2x3 coupler1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299208 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Bragg gratings for an augmented reality display system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299210 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Optical circuit switch (ocs) with multiplexed structure17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276897 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- A system for directing incident light onto spatial light modulator planes30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219457 A1Huber+Suhner Polatis Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus using two-mode optical waveguide with non-circular core294US 4,915,468 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1990
- Broadband light source system and method and light source combiner281US 6,570,659 B2LightLab Imaging, Inc. · 2003
- Scattering device on an arrayed waveguide grating224US 8,958,665 B2Infinera Corporation · 2015
- Frequency-selective optical switch employing a frequency dispersive element, polarization dispersive element and polarization modulating elements208US 5,414,540 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1995
- Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum and continuous wave-generating system utilizing same167US 6,381,391 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2002