H01S 5/18394
Apertures
Official title: {Apertures, e.g. defined by the shape of the upper electrode}
H01S5/18394 (Apertures) appears on 314 US grants and 419 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 314
- Published applications
- 419
- Assignees
- 151
- Inventors
- 688
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 4 |
| 2002 | 6 | 15 |
| 2003 | 11 | 6 |
| 2004 | 8 | 7 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13 |
| 2006 | 6 | 14 |
| 2007 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 10 | 9 |
| 2009 | 13 | 16 |
| 2010 | 8 | 3 |
| 2011 | 11 | 17 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12 |
| 2013 | 8 | 5 |
| 2014 | 16 | 11 |
| 2015 | 9 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 | 6 |
| 2018 | 11 | 20 |
| 2019 | 15 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 | 33 |
| 2021 | 19 | 28 |
| 2022 | 12 | 25 |
| 2023 | 12 | 31 |
| 2024 | 22 | 34 |
| 2025 | 16 | 34 |
| 2026 | 16 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Surface emitting laser6 Oct 2026US 12,756,160 B2Institute of Science Tokyo
- Light emitting device25 Aug 2026US 12,719,231 B2Nichia Corporation
- Surface-emitting laser device and distance measurement device having same18 Aug 2026US 12,710,536 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Laser light source and LIDAR system comprising the laser light source18 Aug 2026US 12,712,337 B2OSRAM Opto Semiconductor GmbH
- Vertical cavity surface emitting laser, head gimbal assembly, and fabrication process11 Aug 2026US 12,706,439 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Vcsel with integrated esd protection1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302726 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.
- Flip chip tunable vcsel with hcg on si submount13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237970 A1Bandwidth10, LTD.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with intra-cavity structures163US 5,245,622 ABandgap Technology Corporation · 1993
- Vertical cavity surface emitting laser138US 6,356,573 B1Mitel Semiconductor Limited · 2002
- Multi-wavelength VCSEL array to reduce speckle133US 8,743,923 B2FLIR Systems, Inc. · 2014
- Integration of laser with photodiode for feedback control117US 5,606,572 AVixel Corporation · 1997
- Semiconductor light-emitting device, surface-emission laser diode, and production apparatus thereof, production method, optical module and optical telecommunication system104US 6,765,232 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2004