H01S 3/1106
Mode locking
H01S3/1106 (Mode locking) appears on 924 US grants and 889 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 924
- Published applications
- 889
- Assignees
- 459
- Inventors
- 1,660
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 6 |
| 2002 | 12 | 13 |
| 2003 | 20 | 19 |
| 2004 | 24 | 16 |
| 2005 | 20 | 33 |
| 2006 | 15 | 39 |
| 2007 | 8 | 30 |
| 2008 | 18 | 19 |
| 2009 | 30 | 37 |
| 2010 | 28 | 44 |
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| 2019 | 47 | 42 |
| 2020 | 42 | 52 |
| 2021 | 31 | 30 |
| 2022 | 26 | 38 |
| 2023 | 28 | 44 |
| 2024 | 30 | 26 |
| 2025 | 35 | 33 |
| 2026 | 19 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fiber laser system15 Sep 2026US 12,738,708 B2Cegep Garneau
- Pulsed RF generator, pulsed RF transmitter and related methods of operation25 Aug 2026US 12,719,230 B2Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc.
- Mode-locked resonator and ultrashort pulse laser comprising the same4 Aug 2026US 12,700,709 B2Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Laser resonator assembly28 Jul 2026US 12,695,263 B2
- Laser system for ranging applications28 Jul 2026US 12,695,267 B2
- Colliding pulse mode-locking (cpm) lasers having gain sections with substantially equal effective length8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312358 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Integrated frequency comb generators with compensated optical cavity structures8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312361 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Laser element and electronic device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254199 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Apparatus, system and method for providing a light-matter interface for enhancing transitions that generate single photons20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246224 A1Nu Quantum Ltd
- Ultrashort light pulse generator13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237954 A1Indie Photonics Canada Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular, high energy, widely-tunable ultrafast fiber source230US 6,885,683 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2005
- Mode locking methods and apparatus228US 7,414,779 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2008
- Lidar system181US 9,958,545 B2Luminar Technologies, Inc. · 2018
- Lidar system149US 9,857,468 B1Luminar Technologies, Inc. · 2018
- Apparatus for producing femtosecond and picosecond pulses from modelocked fiber lasers cladding pumped with broad area diode laser arrays143US 5,627,848 AImra America, Inc. · 1997