H01S 3/17
Amorphous
Official title: amorphous, e.g. glass
H01S3/17 (Amorphous) appears on 454 US grants and 376 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 454
- Published applications
- 376
- Assignees
- 282
- Inventors
- 1,083
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 15 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 16 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 4 |
| 2002 | 23 | 27 |
| 2003 | 25 | 36 |
| 2004 | 21 | 13 |
| 2005 | 19 | 11 |
| 2006 | 7 | 12 |
| 2007 | 7 | 13 |
| 2008 | 7 | 8 |
| 2009 | 8 | 8 |
| 2010 | 9 | 17 |
| 2011 | 8 | 21 |
| 2012 | 11 | 23 |
| 2013 | 14 | 14 |
| 2014 | 18 | 14 |
| 2015 | 15 | 12 |
| 2016 | 20 | 17 |
| 2017 | 24 | 18 |
| 2018 | 5 | 7 |
| 2019 | 9 | 14 |
| 2020 | 14 | 23 |
| 2021 | 8 | 17 |
| 2022 | 8 | 17 |
| 2023 | 7 | 11 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 |
| 2026 | 8 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Athermal glasses and athermal systems for infrared optics22 Sep 2026US 12,741,901 B2Schott AG
- Fiber amplifier2 Jun 2026US 12,646,901 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical fiber raw material composition, optical fiber, and optical fiber product19 May 2026US 12,633,715 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Active element added-optical fiber, preform for active element added-optical fiber, resonator, and fiber laser device12 May 2026US 12,627,114 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Optical amplification apparatus and signal amplification method of optical amplification apparatus21 Apr 2026US 12,609,505 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- A device and method for resonant pumping of optical gain medium in a manner orthogonal to a laser mode27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254185 A1Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
- Ultrashort light pulse generator13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237954 A1Indie Photonics Canada Inc.
- Laser medium arrangement and laser system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196794 A1Schott AG
- Praseodymium optical fiber14 May 2026US 2026/0135345 A1King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
- Symmetric optical fiber layout to mitigate group delay mismatch in multi-core fiber19 Feb 2026US 2026/0051713 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Quantum dot Laser374US 5,260,957 AThe Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · 1993
- Method and apparatus for waveguide optics and devices111US 6,330,388 B1Northstar Photonics, Inc. · 2001
- Erbium-doped fluorozirconate fiber laser pumped by a diode laser source104US 5,084,880 AThe United States of America as represented by the Sectretary of the Navy · 1992
- Three dimensional engineering of planar optical structures93US 6,952,504 B2NeoPhotonics Corporation · 2005
- Optical amplifiers and lasers91US 6,819,692 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004