H01S 3/1618
Ytterbium
Official title: {ytterbium}
H01S3/1618 (Ytterbium) appears on 858 US grants and 1,020 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 858
- Published applications
- 1,020
- Assignees
- 434
- Inventors
- 1,828
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 2 |
| 2002 | 11 | 17 |
| 2003 | 15 | 23 |
| 2004 | 16 | 16 |
| 2005 | 12 | 32 |
| 2006 | 14 | 29 |
| 2007 | 16 | 34 |
| 2008 | 17 | 31 |
| 2009 | 31 | 48 |
| 2010 | 34 | 54 |
| 2011 | 44 | 52 |
| 2012 | 30 | 47 |
| 2013 | 48 | 51 |
| 2014 | 57 | 52 |
| 2015 | 68 | 45 |
| 2016 | 43 | 58 |
| 2017 | 61 | 51 |
| 2018 | 38 | 36 |
| 2019 | 33 | 54 |
| 2020 | 41 | 51 |
| 2021 | 32 | 37 |
| 2022 | 42 | 61 |
| 2023 | 29 | 50 |
| 2024 | 38 | 35 |
| 2025 | 27 | 30 |
| 2026 | 23 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Rare-earth doped fiber and fiber laser apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,725,994 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Fiber laser apparatus11 Aug 2026US 12,706,430 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Electro-optic display stacks with segmented electrodes and methods of making the same21 Jul 2026US 12,687,757 B2E Ink Corporation
- Laser device21 Jul 2026US 12,689,170 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Method and system for generation of optical pulses of light23 Jun 2026US 12,665,379 B2VALO Innovations GmbH
- Fiber laser systems and techniques27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254188 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Laser element and electronic device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254199 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Solid-state laser system and excimer laser apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246223 A1Gigaphoton Inc.
- B-integral compensation in amplification of ultrashort laser pulses13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237957 A1Coherent Scotland Limited
- Compact high-repetition-rate passive mode-locked resonant cavity structure and fiber laser13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237958 A1South China University of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular, high energy, widely-tunable ultrafast fiber source230US 6,885,683 B1Imra America, Inc. · 2005
- Optical fiber and method for making such fiber230US 7,313,312 B2Corning Incorporated · 2007
- Rare earth doped and large effective area optical fibers for fiber lasers and amplifiers222US 8,213,758 B2Imra America, Inc. · 2012
- Ytterbium-doped optical fiber, fiber laser, and fiber amplifier219US 8,363,313 B2Fujikura Ltd. · 2013
- Rare earth doped and large effective area optical fibers for fiber lasers and amplifiers219US 8,542,968 B2Imra America, Inc. · 2013