H01S 3/08054
Passive cavity elements acting on the polarization
Official title: {Passive cavity elements acting on the polarization, e.g. a polarizer for branching or walk-off compensation (quarter-wave plates in a Q-switch laser H01S3/1124, H01S3/115)}
H01S3/08054 (Passive cavity elements acting on the polarization) appears on 325 US grants and 315 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Polarization-selective laser mirror124US 4,009,933 ARCA Corporation · 1977
- Optical fiber Raman oscillator123US 4,063,106 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1977
- Mode-locked multimode fiber laser pulse source108US 6,275,512 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2001
- Drive laser delivery systems for EUV light source61US 7,491,954 B2Cymer, Inc. · 2009
- Optical transmission filter47US 4,698,816 AGeneral Electric Company · 1987