G02F 1/0157
Using electro-absorption effects
Official title: {using electro-absorption effects, e.g. Franz-Keldysh [FK] effect or quantum confined stark effect [QCSE]}
G02F1/0157 (Using electro-absorption effects) appears on 291 US grants and 259 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 291
- Published applications
- 259
- Assignees
- 165
- Inventors
- 615
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 18 | 34 |
| 2026 | 15 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Self-adjusted automatic bias control of an electro-absorption modulator15 Sep 2026US 12,736,838 B2ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Diode with light-sensitive intrinsic region1 Sep 2026US 12,727,260 B2Ihp GmbH—Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Institut Fur Innovative Mikroelektronik
- Optically bridged multicomponent package with extended temperature range4 Aug 2026US 12,699,240 B2Sicily Merger Sub II, Inc.
- Compact differential traveling wave electro-absorption modulator for high bandwidth operation4 Aug 2026US 12,699,291 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Infrared modulator, optical device including the infrared modulator, and optical computing system including the optical device4 Aug 2026US 12,699,292 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Distributed electro-absorption modulator systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299326 A1ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc.
- Electrical interconnects for packages containing photonic integrated circuits1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305479 A1Sicily Merger Sub II, Inc.
- Electro-absorption modulator and monolithic electro-photonic integrated circuit comprising an electro-absorption modulator and driver electronics24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287940 A1ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc.
- Optical Modulator and Optical Transmitter27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251923 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Low voltage traveling wave electro-absorption modulator for high bandwidth operation20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244041 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Telecommunications system125US 6,731,880 B2Microwave Photonics, Inc. · 2004
- Telecommunications system simultaneously receiving and modulating an optical signal123US 6,525,855 B1British Telecommunications Public Ltd.Co. · 2003
- Method of and device for driving optical modulator, and optical communications system118US 5,917,637 AFujitsu Limited · 1999
- Optical short pulse generating device113US 5,434,693 AKokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Optical devices comprising polymer-dispersed crystalline materials96US 6,005,707 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1999