G02B 6/3598
Switching means directly located between an optoelectronic element and waveguides, including direct
Official title: {Switching means directly located between an optoelectronic element and waveguides, including direct displacement of either the element or the waveguide, e.g. optical pulse generation (based on changing the optical properties of the medium G02F1/00; optical pulse generation in optical transmitters H04B10/508; optical pulse generation by controlling laser operation H01S3/00)}
G02B6/3598 (Switching means directly located between an optoelectronic element and waveguides, including direct) appears on 194 US grants and 173 published applications in this corpus.
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