G02B 6/29386
Interleaving or deinterleaving, i.e. separating or mixing subsets of optical signals
Official title: {Interleaving or deinterleaving, i.e. separating or mixing subsets of optical signals, e.g. combining even and odd channels into a single optical signal}
G02B6/29386 (Interleaving or deinterleaving, i.e. separating or mixing subsets of optical signals) appears on 182 US grants and 147 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 182
- Published applications
- 147
- Assignees
- 92
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Technologies for optical demultiplexing with backwards compatibility6 Oct 2026US 12,754,364 B2Intel Corporation
- Thermally insensitive optical multiplexer9 Jun 2026US 12,652,121 B1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Wavelength division multiplexing device with passive alignment substrate9 Sep 2025US 12,411,285 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Spectrally interleaved optical transceivers8 Jul 2025US 12,355,492 B2Lightmatter, Inc.
- Fabrication-tolerant on-chip multiplexers and demultiplexers17 Sep 2024US 12,092,863 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Data transmission device and data transmission method18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169226 A1Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Spectrally interleaved optical transceivers18 Sep 2025US 2025/0293780 A1Lightmatter, Inc.
- Comb Laser Source Architectures for Photonic integrated Circuits3 Jul 2025US 2025/0216624 A1Intel Corporation
- Spectrally interleaved optical transceivers27 Mar 2025US 2025/0105921 A1Lightmatter, Inc.
- Optical communication device6 Mar 2025US 2025/0076584 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Programmable wavelength router94US 5,867,291 AChorum Technologies LP · 1999
- Rhomb interleaver61US 6,690,513 B2JDS Uniphase Corporation · 2004
- Nonlinear interferometer for fiber optic dense wavelength division multiplexer utilizing a phase bias element to separate wavelengths in an optical signal52US 6,169,604 AAvanex Corporation · 2001
- Programmable wavelength router49US 5,978,116 AChorum Technologies LP · 1999
- Fiber optic dense wavelength division multiplexer with a phase differential method of wavelength separation utilizing a polarization beam splitter and a nonlinear interferometer47US 6,130,971 AAvanex Corporation · 2000