G02F 1/3511
Self-focusing or self-trapping of light
Official title: {Self-focusing or self-trapping of light; Light-induced birefringence; Induced optical Kerr-effect}
G02F1/3511 (Self-focusing or self-trapping of light) appears on 225 US grants and 175 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Ultrafast laser sources and method3 Mar 2026US 12,567,712 B2Institut National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Laser system and method for the spectral broadening of pulsed laser radiation4 Nov 2025US 12,463,395 B2TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
- Multi-wavelength laser light source, method of manufacturing the same, and silicon photonic integrated circuit apparatus using the same18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169349 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Configuring layers to provide a strain to an optical waveguiding structure23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110925 A1Ciena Corporation
- An optical assembly and method for providing a multifrequency resonator-based frequency comb29 Jan 2026US 2026/0031595 A1Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- Long wavelength generation in optical fiber23 Oct 2025US 2025/0327968 A1Nkt Photonics A/S
- Nonlinear Bound States in the Continuum for Intensity Squeezing and Generation of Large Photonic Fock States11 Sep 2025US 2025/0284176 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum and continuous wave-generating system utilizing same167US 6,381,391 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2002
- Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum, method of making the system and pulse-generating system utilizing same95US 6,480,656 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2002
- Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum and continuous wave-generating system utilizing same76US 6,603,910 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2003
- Photonic bandgap apparatus and method for delaying photonic signals74US 5,751,466 AUniversity of Alabama at Huntsville · 1998
- Method and system for generating a broadband spectral continuum, method of making the system and pulse-generating system utilizing same72US 6,549,702 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2003