H01S 5/426
Vertically stacked cavities
Official title: {Vertically stacked cavities}
H01S5/426 (Vertically stacked cavities) appears on 80 US grants and 90 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 80
- Published applications
- 90
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 193
- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 8 | 3 |
| 2003 | 7 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 | 8 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2015 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 10 | 8 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 3 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical device and light-emitting device10 Mar 2026US 12,573,812 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Relaxed Wurtzite Ingan layers3 Feb 2026US 12,542,413 B2Opnovix Corp.
- Time-of-flight system and time-of-flight methods6 Jan 2026US 12,517,234 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Method of fabricating a VCSEL device and VCSEL device16 Sep 2025US 12,418,159 B2Trumpf Photonic Components GmbH
- Bi-directional vertical cavity surface emitting lasers25 Feb 2025US 12,237,648 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Relaxed wurtzite ingan layers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229852 A1Opnovix Corp.
- Optically pumped semiconductor laser using gallium and nitrogen containing diode laser source and module11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163329 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Relaxed wurtzite ingan layers4 Jun 2026US 2026/0155632 A1Opnovix Corp.
- Spontaneous and stimulated emission devices based on relaxed iii-nitride materials8 Jan 2026US 2026/0011983 A1Opnovix Corp.
- Relaxed wurtzite ingan layers1 Jan 2026US 2026/0005485 A1Opnovix Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- VCSEL-based multi-wavelength transmitter and receiver modules for serial and parallel optical links129US 5,914,976 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1999
- 1250-1650 nm vertical cavity surface emitting laser pumped by a 700-1050 nm vertical cavity surface emitting laser85US 5,754,578 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1998
- External cavity semiconductor laser with monolithic prism assembly85US 6,115,401 ACorning OCA Corporation · 2000
- Long wavelength, vertical cavity surface emitting laser with vertically integrated optical pump83US 5,513,204 AOptical Concepts, Inc. · 1996
- Fabrication of scanning III-V compound light emitters integrated with Si-based actuators67US 6,054,335 AXerox Corporation · 2000