G02B 6/3508
Lateral or transverse displacement of the whole waveguides
Official title: {Lateral or transverse displacement of the whole waveguides, e.g. by varying the distance between opposed waveguide ends, or by mutual lateral displacement of opposed waveguide ends}
G02B6/3508 (Lateral or transverse displacement of the whole waveguides) appears on 304 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
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