H01S 5/1014
Tapered waveguide
Official title: {Tapered waveguide, e.g. spotsize converter (H01S5/1064 takes precedence)}
H01S5/1014 (Tapered waveguide) appears on 498 US grants and 535 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 498
- Published applications
- 535
- Assignees
- 235
- Inventors
- 1,029
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 11 | 4 |
| 2002 | 13 | 11 |
| 2003 | 12 | 20 |
| 2004 | 10 | 15 |
| 2005 | 13 | 35 |
| 2006 | 30 | 21 |
| 2007 | 16 | 22 |
| 2008 | 14 | 10 |
| 2009 | 14 | 14 |
| 2010 | 17 | 14 |
| 2011 | 9 | 15 |
| 2012 | 9 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 | 12 |
| 2014 | 13 | 15 |
| 2015 | 33 | 24 |
| 2016 | 11 | 16 |
| 2017 | 22 | 25 |
| 2018 | 28 | 32 |
| 2019 | 27 | 21 |
| 2020 | 21 | 29 |
| 2021 | 18 | 29 |
| 2022 | 18 | 37 |
| 2023 | 17 | 31 |
| 2024 | 16 | 25 |
| 2025 | 29 | 25 |
| 2026 | 14 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Semiconductor laser device, and method of manufacturing the same236US 7,470,555 B2Nichia Corporation · 2008
- 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
- Photonic integrated detector having a plurality of asymmetric waveguides114US 6,330,378 B1The Trustees of Princeton University · 2001
- Tapered rib fiber coupler for semiconductor optical devices99US 6,229,947 B1Sandia Corporation · 2001