G02F 2203/26
Pulse shaping
Official title: Pulse shaping; Apparatus or methods therefor
G02F2203/26 (Pulse shaping) appears on 164 US grants and 146 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 164
- Published applications
- 146
- Assignees
- 123
- Inventors
- 400
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light generating apparatus and method8 Sep 2026US 12,730,353 B2Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Optical pulse train generation device and optical pulse train generation method1 Sep 2026US 12,724,318 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Cascaded optical modulation system24 Mar 2026US 12,584,744 B2Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Ultrafast laser sources and method3 Mar 2026US 12,567,712 B2Institut National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Tunable high frequency modulated light beam24 Feb 2026US 12,562,545 B2Applied Energetics, Inc.
- Prism pulse shaper24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287943 A1
- Optical intensity modulation apparatus and laser systems2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189306 A1Nkt Photonics A/S
- High-bandwidth photonic memory with a warm atomic vapor30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118733 A1Qunnect, Inc.
- Pulse compression electrum grating and its preparation method29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029656 A1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics the Chinese Academy of Science
- Radio frequency signal generator and optical intensity modulation apparatus15 Jan 2026US 2026/0019159 A1Nkt Photonics A/S
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical short pulse generating device113US 5,434,693 AKokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Apparatus and method for femtosecond pulse compression based on selective attenuation of a portion of an input power spectrum88US 5,689,361 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1997
- Laser pulse shaper48US 5,526,171 AThe Trustees of Princeton University · 1996
- Multiple-stage optical Kerr gate system45US 5,227,912 A1993
- Method and apparatus for arbitrary spectral shaping of an optical pulse42US 6,195,484 B13M Innovative Properties Company · 2001