H01S 5/1003
Waveguide having a modified shape along the axis
Official title: {Waveguide having a modified shape along the axis, e.g. branched, curved, tapered, voids}
H01S5/1003 (Waveguide having a modified shape along the axis) appears on 933 US grants and 1,032 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 933
- Published applications
- 1,032
- Assignees
- 407
- Inventors
- 1,798
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 15 | 17 |
| 2003 | 16 | 32 |
| 2004 | 19 | 34 |
| 2005 | 22 | 49 |
| 2006 | 41 | 38 |
| 2007 | 23 | 34 |
| 2008 | 23 | 23 |
| 2009 | 25 | 31 |
| 2010 | 34 | 37 |
| 2011 | 19 | 43 |
| 2012 | 28 | 29 |
| 2013 | 35 | 26 |
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| 2015 | 52 | 38 |
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| 2018 | 51 | 54 |
| 2019 | 49 | 50 |
| 2020 | 47 | 61 |
| 2021 | 41 | 74 |
| 2022 | 35 | 60 |
| 2023 | 52 | 51 |
| 2024 | 32 | 42 |
| 2025 | 44 | 52 |
| 2026 | 26 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Bandwidth enhancement of quantum dot/well hybrid III-V/silicon micro-ring lasers6 Oct 2026US 12,756,158 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Wavelength tunable laser device and method of manufacturing the same15 Sep 2026US 12,738,711 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Method for producing a plurality of semiconductor lasers, and semiconductor laser8 Sep 2026US 12,731,955 B2ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- Semiconductor chip and optical module14 Jul 2026US 12,683,360 B2NTT, Inc.
- Monolithic edge-emitting semiconductor diode arrays7 Jul 2026US 12,676,461 B2Exalos AG
- Laser Structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302728 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Heterogeneous lasers with facets optimized for high power3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261096 A1
- Cat's-eye swept source laser for OCT and spectroscopy27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251565 A1
- Optoelectronic semiconductor component20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246233 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- Optical Device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246237 A1NTT, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semiconductor laser device, and method of manufacturing the same236US 7,470,555 B2Nichia Corporation · 2008
- Integrated total internal reflectors for high-gain laser diodes with high quality cleaved facets on nonpolar/semipolar GaN substrates234US 8,259,769 B1Soraa, Inc. · 2012
- Method and system of heterogeneous substrate bonding for photonic integration168US 8,630,326 B2Skorpios Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Solid-state laser source of tunable narrow-bandwidth ultraviolet radiation139US 5,745,284 APresident and Fellows of Harvard College · 1998
- Thermal compensators for waveguide DBR laser sources118US 5,870,417 ASDL, Inc. · 1999