H01S 5/1021
Coupled cavities
Official title: {Coupled cavities (H01S5/14 takes precedence)}
H01S5/1021 (Coupled cavities) appears on 236 US grants and 194 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 236
- Published applications
- 194
- Assignees
- 181
- Inventors
- 536
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 9 | 5 |
| 2003 | 9 | 6 |
| 2004 | 8 | 10 |
| 2005 | 4 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12 |
| 2007 | 5 | 4 |
| 2008 | 6 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 | 10 |
| 2010 | 14 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 | 10 |
| 2012 | 6 | 4 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 7 | 7 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8 |
| 2020 | 10 | 16 |
| 2021 | 7 | 11 |
| 2022 | 11 | 13 |
| 2023 | 8 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Wavelength control of multi-wavelength laser16 Dec 2025US 12,500,392 B2Technische Universität Darmstadt
- DFB with weak optical feedback9 Dec 2025US 12,494,619 B2II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Systems and methods for microdisk and multiplet laser particles18 Nov 2025US 12,476,436 B2The General Hospital Corporation
- Laser Structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302728 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Multi-cavity cascaded coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and manufacture method thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302730 A1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Multiple cavity vertical-cavity surface emitting laser system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280229 A1
- Laser element and electronic device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254199 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Tunable transverse cavity surface emitting laser13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237967 A1University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Narrow spectrum light source131US 7,835,417 B2Octrolix BV · 2010
- External cavity semiconductor laser with monolithic prism assembly85US 6,115,401 ACorning OCA Corporation · 2000
- Integrated laser and coupled waveguide81US 5,673,284 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Monolithic two dimensional waveguide coupled cavity laser/modulator79US 4,802,182 AXerox Corporation · 1989
- Integrated laser and coupled waveguide66US 6,064,783 A2000