H01S 5/18322
Position of the structure
Official title: {Position of the structure}
H01S5/18322 (Position of the structure) appears on 524 US grants and 617 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 524
- Published applications
- 617
- Assignees
- 216
- Inventors
- 884
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 14 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 4 |
| 2002 | 16 | 20 |
| 2003 | 25 | 26 |
| 2004 | 26 | 27 |
| 2005 | 16 | 26 |
| 2006 | 18 | 24 |
| 2007 | 10 | 19 |
| 2008 | 15 | 18 |
| 2009 | 16 | 25 |
| 2010 | 23 | 13 |
| 2011 | 17 | 24 |
| 2012 | 21 | 15 |
| 2013 | 16 | 11 |
| 2014 | 16 | 9 |
| 2015 | 12 | 14 |
| 2016 | 15 | 8 |
| 2017 | 3 | 11 |
| 2018 | 17 | 21 |
| 2019 | 21 | 37 |
| 2020 | 27 | 48 |
| 2021 | 22 | 37 |
| 2022 | 26 | 38 |
| 2023 | 18 | 33 |
| 2024 | 22 | 48 |
| 2025 | 29 | 27 |
| 2026 | 10 | 34 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Plated trench for parasitic capacitance control of vertical cavity surface emitting laser devices29 Sep 2026US 12,749,870 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Vertical cavity surface emitting laser element and method of producing vertical cavity surface emitting laser element29 Sep 2026US 12,749,871 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Unitized laser chip with double topological structures19 May 2026US 12,633,721 B2Shenzhen Afalight Co., Ltd.
- Surface-emitting laser with optimized DBR structure and enhanced optical confinement12 May 2026US 12,627,117 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- VCSEL with self-aligned microlens to improve beam divergence5 May 2026US 12,620,779 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Single photon source device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302732 A1Institute of Science Tokyo
- Oxide aperture shaping in vertical cavity surface-emitting laser10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269569 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Surface-emitting element20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246234 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Vcsel with tunable grating13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237968 A1Bandwidth10, LTD.
- Hcg tunable vcsel with fully oxidized bottom dbr (gaas based vcsel)13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237969 A1Bandwidth10, LTD.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Efficient semiconductor light-emitting device and method222US 5,493,577 ASandia Corporation · 1996
- Structure and method for electrical isolation of optoelectronic integrated circuits207US 6,545,335 B1Xerox Corporation · 2003
- Metal spatial filter to enhance model reflectivity in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser171US 6,185,241 B2Xerox Corporation · 2001
- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with intra-cavity structures163US 5,245,622 ABandgap Technology Corporation · 1993
- Unitary lens semiconductor device160US 5,633,527 ASandia Corporation · 1997