H04L 27/2096
Arrangements for directly or externally modulating an optical carrier
Official title: {Arrangements for directly or externally modulating an optical carrier (optical modulation H04B10/503)}
H04L27/2096 (Arrangements for directly or externally modulating an optical carrier) appears on 161 US grants and 173 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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