G02B 6/2935
Mach-zehnder configuration, i.e. comprising separate splitting and combining means
Official title: {Mach-Zehnder configuration, i.e. comprising separate splitting and combining means}
G02B6/2935 (Mach-zehnder configuration, i.e. comprising separate splitting and combining means) appears on 716 US grants and 701 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Technologies for optical demultiplexing with backwards compatibility6 Oct 2026US 12,754,364 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical flow switching using photonic integrated circuits29 Sep 2026US 12,748,263 B2Lightmatter, Inc.
- Microring resonator-based optical device with improved linearity18 Aug 2026US 12,711,367 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Integrated photonic 2×3 coupler28 Jul 2026US 12,693,475 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Tunable cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer structures28 Jul 2026US 12,693,571 B2Intel Corporation
- Integrated photonic 2x3 coupler1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299208 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- System and method for thz amplification by wavelength injection of resonant tunneling diode oscillator1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303020 A1Imra America, Inc.
- Optical multi-wavelength dual-polarization transceivers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303248 A1Aloe Semiconductor Inc.
- Mach-zehnder interferometers having folded delay arms6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227574 A1GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Communication device, base station, and communication system16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202677 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Guided-wave optical multi/demultiplexer199US 5,499,308 AHitachi Cable, Ltd. · 1996
- Device and method for dispersion compensation in a fiber optic transmission system119US 5,522,004 ATelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson · 1996
- Wavelength selective optical devices using optical directional coupler115US 4,900,119 ACanadian Patents and Development Limited · 1990
- Optical system with tunable in-fiber gratings114US 5,579,143 ACiena Corporation · 1996
- Switch and insertion networks in optical cable TV system97US 5,659,351 ACiena Corporation · 1997