G02B 6/3596
With planar waveguide arrangement, i.e. in a substrate, regardless if actuating mechanism
Official title: {With planar waveguide arrangement, i.e. in a substrate, regardless if actuating mechanism is outside the substrate}
G02B6/3596 (With planar waveguide arrangement, i.e. in a substrate, regardless if actuating mechanism) appears on 346 US grants and 333 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital micromirror shutter device386US 5,226,099 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1993
- Reconfigurable and scalable intergrated optic waveguide add/drop multiplexing element using micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems and methods of fabricating thereof190US 6,363,183 B12002
- Thermal optical switches for light145US 6,212,308 B1Agilent Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Total internal reflection optical switches employing thermal activation137US 5,699,462 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1997
- Active photonic crystal waveguide device109US 6,542,682 B2Corning Incorporated · 2003