H01S 3/094019
Side pumped fibre, whereby pump light is coupled laterally into the fibre
Official title: {Side pumped fibre, whereby pump light is coupled laterally into the fibre via an optical component like a prism, or a grating, or via V-groove coupling}
H01S3/094019 (Side pumped fibre, whereby pump light is coupled laterally into the fibre) appears on 207 US grants and 179 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 207
- Published applications
- 179
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 414
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Counter pumping a large mode area fiber laser5 May 2026US 12,620,766 B2Optical Engines, Inc.
- System and method for manufacturing all-fiber side-pump combiners with plurality of pumps17 Mar 2026US 12,580,361 B2Lightel Technologies, Inc.
- Multiple signal fiber, optical pump-signal combiner10 Feb 2026US 12,548,966 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Optical coupler and optical amplifier23 Dec 2025US 12,506,316 B2Kddi Corporation
- Fluorescence guide plate, and solar-pumped laser27 May 2025US 12,316,064 B2Tokai University Educational System
- Multicore fiber, optical coupler, and optical amplifier16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204861 A1Lightera Japan Co., Ltd.
- All-Fiber Inline Optical Taps Adopting A Configuration Of Side-Pump Signal-And-Pump Combiners25 Jun 2026US 2026/0180276 A1Lightel Technologies, Inc.
- All-Fiber Laser System With Intrinsic Isolation Of Backward-Propagating Optical Radiation25 Jun 2026US 2026/0180277 A1Lightel Technologies, Inc.
- Side-coupled active and passive waveguides with embedded elements for improved light absorption13 Nov 2025US 2025/0350083 A1Ipg Photonics Corporation
- Multi-core fiber optical amplifier and optical amplification method27 Mar 2025US 2025/0105580 A1NEC Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular, high energy, widely-tunable ultrafast fiber source230US 6,885,683 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2005
- Optical fiber lasers and amplifiers204US 4,815,079 APolaroid Corporation · 1989
- Coupled communications fibers131US 4,315,666 A1982
- Optical couplers for multimode fibers116US 6,434,302 B1JDS Uniphase Corporation · 2002
- Mode-locked multimode fiber laser pulse source108US 6,275,512 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2001