H01S 3/1118
Semiconductor saturable absorbers
Official title: Semiconductor saturable absorbers, e.g. semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors [SESAMs]; Solid-state saturable absorbers, e.g. carbon nanotube [CNT] based
H01S3/1118 (Semiconductor saturable absorbers) appears on 291 US grants and 327 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 291
- Published applications
- 327
- Assignees
- 195
- Inventors
- 590
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Mode-locked resonator and ultrashort pulse laser comprising the same4 Aug 2026US 12,700,709 B2Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Integrated end mirror assembly for a fiber ring laser16 Jun 2026US 12,658,661 B2Vector Atomic, Inc.
- Radiation field generating system27 Jan 2026US 12,537,360 B2Universitaet Stuttgart
- Mid-infrared semiconductor saturable absorber mirror based on INAS/GASB superlattice and preparation method thereof2 Dec 2025US 12,489,268 B2Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chip-integrated mode-locked lasers based on thin-film nonlinear waveguides22 Jul 2025US 12,368,278 B2California Institute of Technology
- Laser element and electronic device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254199 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Compact high-repetition-rate passive mode-locked resonant cavity structure and fiber laser13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237958 A1South China University of Technology
- Universal frequency synthesizer29 Jan 2026US 2026/0031592 A1Imra America, Inc.
- Chip-integrated mode-locked lasers based on thin-film nonlinear waveguides27 Nov 2025US 2025/0364772 A1California Institute of Technology
- System and method for generating visible-to-mid-infrared frequency comb7 Aug 2025US 2025/0253605 A1Beijing Aerospace Institute for Metrology and Measurement Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Technique for the generation of optical pulses in modelocked lasers by dispersive control of the oscillation pulse width140US 5,450,427 AImra America, Inc. · 1995
- Integrated passively modelocked fiber lasers and method for constructing the same127US 6,072,811 AImra America, Inc. · 2000
- Oscillator with mode control111US 6,324,191 B1Intralase Corp. · 2001
- Mode-locked multimode fiber laser pulse source108US 6,275,512 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2001