H01S 5/18341
Intra-cavity contacts
Official title: {Intra-cavity contacts}
H01S5/18341 (Intra-cavity contacts) appears on 657 US grants and 670 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 657
- Published applications
- 670
- Assignees
- 243
- Inventors
- 1,009
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 25 | 31 |
| 2026 | 16 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Single photon source device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302732 A1Institute of Science Tokyo
- Vertical cavity light-emitting element20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246236 A1Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
- Surface emitting laser, method for fabricating surface emitting laser20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246239 A1Sanoh Industrial Co., Ltd.
- A vcsel with self-aligned microlens to improve beam divergence13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237971 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertical-cavity surface emitting laser assay display system615US 5,325,386 ABandgap Technology Corporation · 1994
- Light-emitting semiconductor device462US 5,696,389 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1997
- Polarized surface-emitting laser358US 5,331,654 APhotonics Research Incorporated · 1994
- III-nitride light emitting devices fabricated by substrate removal250US 6,800,500 B2Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC · 2004
- Blue vertical cavity surface emitting laser248US 6,160,833 AXerox Corporation · 2000