H01S 5/005
Optical components external to the laser cavity, specially adapted therefor
Official title: {Optical components external to the laser cavity, specially adapted therefor, e.g. for homogenisation or merging of the beams or for manipulating laser pulses, e.g. pulse shaping (H01S5/026, H01S5/18388 take precedence)}
H01S5/005 (Optical components external to the laser cavity, specially adapted therefor) appears on 3,424 US grants and 3,836 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 3,424
- Published applications
- 3,836
- Assignees
- 1,150
- Inventors
- 6,338
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 0 |
| 1988 | 6 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 14 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 19 | 0 |
| 1995 | 24 | 0 |
| 1996 | 20 | 0 |
| 1997 | 19 | 0 |
| 1998 | 30 | 0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 0 |
| 2000 | 29 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 19 |
| 2002 | 34 | 69 |
| 2003 | 51 | 126 |
| 2004 | 75 | 120 |
| 2005 | 100 | 132 |
| 2006 | 97 | 100 |
| 2007 | 66 | 76 |
| 2008 | 76 | 93 |
| 2009 | 85 | 110 |
| 2010 | 88 | 105 |
| 2011 | 75 | 113 |
| 2012 | 79 | 93 |
| 2013 | 84 | 123 |
| 2014 | 110 | 119 |
| 2015 | 114 | 153 |
| 2016 | 132 | 147 |
| 2017 | 156 | 239 |
| 2018 | 195 | 232 |
| 2019 | 258 | 323 |
| 2020 | 264 | 286 |
| 2021 | 216 | 258 |
| 2022 | 172 | 223 |
| 2023 | 195 | 186 |
| 2024 | 179 | 155 |
| 2025 | 148 | 130 |
| 2026 | 86 | 106 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H01S 5/0071For beam steering840
- H01S 5/0085For modulating the output, i.e. the laser beam is modulated outside the535
- H01S 5/0087For illuminating phosphorescent or fluorescent materials529
- H01S 5/0092For nonlinear frequency conversion313
- H01S 5/0064Anti-reflection components305
- H01S 5/0078For frequency filtering238
- H01S 5/0057For temporal shaping89
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