H01S 5/2036
Broad area lasers
Official title: {Broad area lasers}
H01S5/2036 (Broad area lasers) appears on 218 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 218
- Published applications
- 201
- Assignees
- 119
- Inventors
- 408
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 7 |
| 2002 | 9 | 5 |
| 2003 | 14 | 13 |
| 2004 | 12 | 15 |
| 2005 | 4 | 6 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2 |
| 2007 | 6 | 8 |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 |
| 2009 | 2 | 11 |
| 2010 | 6 | 7 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11 |
| 2012 | 6 | 9 |
| 2013 | 15 | 4 |
| 2014 | 9 | 7 |
| 2015 | 8 | 4 |
| 2016 | 5 | 9 |
| 2017 | 10 | 9 |
| 2018 | 4 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10 |
| 2021 | 6 | 8 |
| 2022 | 9 | 9 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 7 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Slow axis, or slow axis and fast axis, wavelength beam combining for laser minibars6 Oct 2026US 12,756,161 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Semiconductor laser device8 Sep 2026US 12,731,963 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Segmented contact for current control in semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers16 Jun 2026US 12,658,671 B2Freedom Photonics LLC
- Component with structured connection surface, and method for operating a component7 Apr 2026US 12,597,759 B2ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- High-power single-mode triple-ridge waveguide semiconductor laser24 Feb 2026US 12,562,550 B2Clemson University Research Foundation
- Two-dimensional periodically index-coupled fabry perot laser ("2d pic-fl")27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254200 A1
- Two-dimensional grating surface-emitting laser ("2d-grsel")20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246230 A1
- Edge-emitting semiconductor laser, method of manufacturing a plurality of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers, laser component and method of manufacturing a laser component23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213496 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- Optical wireless power transmission using laser diodes18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171852 A1Wi-Charge Ltd.
- Semiconductor laser with interrupted grooves11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163333 A1Excelitas Canada, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical device structure using GaN substrates and growth structures for laser applications184US 8,294,179 B1Soraa, Inc. · 2012
- Spatially coherent surface-emitting, grating coupled quantum cascade laser with unstable resonance cavity133US 6,560,259 B1Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. · 2003
- Tapered fiber laser119US 6,324,326 B1Corning Incorporated · 2001
- Semiconductor ring and folded cavity lasers107US 5,231,642 ASpectra Diode Laboratories, Inc. · 1993
- Semiconductor laser with integrated optical elements97US 4,815,084 ASpectra Diode Laboratories, Inc. · 1989