G02F 7/00
Optical analogue/digital converters
G02F7/00 (Optical analogue/digital converters) appears on 203 US grants and 143 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 203
- Published applications
- 143
- Assignees
- 114
- Inventors
- 367
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 5 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 6 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2 |
| 2012 | 4 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 | 11 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6 |
| 2015 | 13 | 8 |
| 2016 | 12 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024 | 12 | 9 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-parallel and serial optical digital to analog conversion28 Jul 2026US 12,695,512 B2Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
- Analog memory for photonic circuits23 Jun 2026US 12,663,581 B2Milkshake Technology Inc.
- Optically based analog-digital converter9 Jun 2026US 12,650,632 B2Universität Paderborn
- Modulo-based analog-to-digital conversion apparatus and method10 Feb 2026US 12,549,193 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optically based analog-digital converter25 Nov 2025US 12,481,202 B2UniversitäT Paderborn KöR
- Optical logic and quantum-limited signal processing in large-scale optoelectronic circuits27 Nov 2025US 2025/0362561 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Linearized optical digital-to-analog modulator13 Nov 2025US 2025/0350366 A1Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
- Optical digital-to-analog converter6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341754 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Signal processing with optical resonators and modulation elements, and systems and methods employing such processing30 Oct 2025US 2025/0334827 A1University of Maryland, College Park
- Photonic analog-to-digital converter (padc) with photonic phase correction4 Sep 2025US 2025/0278011 A1Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electro-optical analog-to-digital converter and method for digitizing an analog signal81US 5,010,346 AThe Boeing Company · 1991
- Light intensity modulator with digital control and a digital-analog converter comprising such a modulator47US 4,288,785 AThomson-CSF · 1981
- Photonic analog-to-digital conversion using light absorbers46US 6,326,910 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 2001
- Photonic parallel analog-to-digital converter46US 6,525,682 B2HRL Laboratories, LLC · 2003
- Systems and methods for converting wideband signals in the optical domain44US 8,026,837 B1The Aerospace Corporation · 2011