H01S 3/0632
Thin film lasers in which light propagates in the plane of the
Official title: {Thin film lasers in which light propagates in the plane of the thin film}
H01S3/0632 (Thin film lasers in which light propagates in the plane of the) appears on 401 US grants and 377 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 377
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- 251
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- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Perovskite-based white or multi-wavelength laser5 May 2026US 12,620,781 B1King Saud University
- Tunable microwave source based on dual-wavelength lasing of single optical whispering gallery microcavity30 Dec 2025US 12,512,643 B2East China Normal University
- Integrated silicon structures with optical gain mediated by rare-earth-doped tellurium-oxide-coating16 Dec 2025US 12,500,388 B2McMaster University
- A device and method for resonant pumping of optical gain medium in a manner orthogonal to a laser mode27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254185 A1Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
- Composite laser gain medium16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204860 A1Aqwest LLC
- Light-emitting device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204865 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Integrated ceramic waveguide optical amplifiers and laser devices9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196793 A1
- Photonic integrated circuit comprising gain medium, and optoelectronic device16 Apr 2026US 2026/0106430 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nanocomposites165US 7,068,898 B2Nanosys, Inc. · 2006
- Tuneable photonic crystal lasers and a method of fabricating the same118US 6,711,200 B1California Institute of Technology · 2004
- Reflective polarization retarder and laser apparatus utilizing same112US 4,084,883 AUniversity of Rochester · 1978
- Method and apparatus for waveguide optics and devices111US 6,330,388 B1Northstar Photonics, Inc. · 2001
- Laser with electrically-controlled grating reflector103US 5,504,772 ADeacon Research · 1996