G02B 6/2766
Manipulating the plane of polarisation from one input polarisation to another output
Official title: {Manipulating the plane of polarisation from one input polarisation to another output polarisation, e.g. polarisation rotators, linear to circular polarisation converters}
G02B6/2766 (Manipulating the plane of polarisation from one input polarisation to another output) appears on 407 US grants and 349 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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.
- Heterogeneously integrated photonic platform supporting large effective mode area waveguides and thermally optimized active components16 Jun 2026US 12,656,553 B2Nexus Photonics LLC
- Thermally insensitive optical multiplexer9 Jun 2026US 12,652,121 B1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Polarization splitter rotator17 Feb 2026US 12,554,060 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Low-complexity photonic transceiver8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312689 A1HEPT Lab, Inc.
- Polarization splitter-rotator7 May 2026US 2026/0126588 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- Converter structure and method for horizontal coupling of light30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118586 A1Axinora Ltd.
- Optical waveguide element9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099004 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Efficient and compact mid-infrared polarization splitter and rotator based on a bifurcated tapered-bent waveguide12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043964 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Collimating optical device and system149US 8,643,948 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2014
- Micro-machine polarization-state controller134US 6,445,485 B1AT&T Corp. · 2002
- System and method for fabricating components of precise optical path length134US 6,459,487 B12002
- Collimating optical device and system132US 8,810,914 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2014