H01S 5/18377
Comprising layers of different kind of materials
Official title: {comprising layers of different kind of materials, e.g. combinations of semiconducting with dielectric or metallic layers}
H01S5/18377 (Comprising layers of different kind of materials) appears on 265 US grants and 330 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 265
- Published applications
- 330
- Assignees
- 137
- Inventors
- 569
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
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| 2004 | 11 | 17 |
| 2005 | 8 | 13 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 10 | 6 |
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| 2014 | 7 | 11 |
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| 2018 | 11 | 25 |
| 2019 | 20 | 16 |
| 2020 | 20 | 30 |
| 2021 | 17 | 36 |
| 2022 | 15 | 26 |
| 2023 | 12 | 17 |
| 2024 | 20 | 25 |
| 2025 | 16 | 26 |
| 2026 | 8 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Metal spatial filter to enhance model reflectivity in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser171US 6,185,241 B2Xerox Corporation · 2001
- Optical device with low electrical and thermal resistance bragg reflectors134US 5,568,499 ASandia Corporation · 1996
- Transverse mode and polarization control of surface emitting lasers through the formation of a dielectric stack96US 6,885,690 B2Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. · 2005
- Visible light surface emitting semiconductor laser73US 5,258,990 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy · 1993
- Optical communication with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser operating in multiple transverse modes66US 5,359,447 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1994