Optics

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2020

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

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Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 28 9170367    Waveguides having patterned, flattened modes
  Inventors: Michael J. Messerly; Paul H. Pax; Jay W. Dawson

  2. 27 6989508    High-speed, precision, laser-based method and system for processing material of one or more targets within a field
  Inventors: Jonathan S. Ehrmann; James Cordingley; Donald V. Smart; Donald J. Svetkoff

  2. 27 8184363    All-fiber integrated high power coherent beam combination
  Inventors: Joshua E. Rothenberg

  4. 23 7924500    Micro-structured fiber profiles for mitigation of bend-loss and/or mode distortion in LMA fiber amplifiers, including dual-core embodiments
  Inventors: John D. Minelly

  5. 21 5153773    Illumination device including amplitude-division and beam movements
  Inventors: Masato Muraki; Akiyoshi Suzuki; Shunzo Imai

  5. 21 5475415    Optical head and printing system forming interleaved output laser light beams
  Inventors: Mark Noethen

  5. 21 6433301    Beam shaping and projection imaging with solid state UV Gaussian beam to form vias
  Inventors: Corey Dunsky; Xinbing Liu; Nicholas J. Croglio, Jr.; Ho Wai Lo; Bryan Charles Gundrum; Hisashi Matsumoto

  5. 21 6483973    Cladding member for optical fibers and optical fibers formed with the cladding member
  Inventors: David Mazzarese; John D. Prohaska; Malcolm C. Smith; Kanishka Tankala

  5. 21 7257293    Fiber structure with improved bend resistance
  Inventors: John Fini; Siddharth Ramachandran

  10. 20 4252403    Coupler for a graded index fiber
  Inventors: Glenn C. Salisbury

  10. 20 4266851    Coupler for a concentric core optical fiber
  Inventors: Glenn C. Salisbury

  10. 20 4475027    Optical beam homogenizer
  Inventors: Robert J. Pressley

  10. 20 5864430    Gaussian beam profile shaping apparatus, method therefor and evaluation thereof
  Inventors: Fred M. Dickey; Scott C. Holswade; Louis Anthony Romero

  10. 20 5986807    Single binary optical element beam homogenizer
  Inventors: David K. Fork

  10. 20 6496301    Helical fiber amplifier
  Inventors: Jeffrey P. Koplow; Dahy Kliner; Lew Goldberg

  10. 20 6639177    Method and system for processing one or more microstructures of a multi-material device
  Inventors: Jonathan S. Ehrmann; James Cordingley; Donald V. Smart; Donald J. Svetkoff

  10. 20 7116887    Optical fiber
  Inventors: Julia Farroni; Adrian Carter; Kanishka Tankala

  10. 20 7157661    Method and apparatus for laser machining
  Inventors: Jun Amako

  10. 20 7537395    Diode-laser-pump module with integrated signal ports for pumping amplifying fibers and method
  Inventors: Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs

  10. 20 7876495    Apparatus and method for compensating for and using mode-profile distortions caused by bending optical fibers
  Inventors: John D. Minelly

  10. 20 8711471    High power fiber amplifier with stable output
  Inventors: Chang Liu; Jason N. Farmer; Anmol Nijjar; Xiaojun Li

  10. 20 8728591    Polymer film, phase difference film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal display device, retardation inducing agent, and merocyanine-based compound
  Inventors: Hiroshi Inada; Ryo Nakamura; Masaki Noro

  10. 20 9322989    Optical fiber with distributed bend compensated filtering
  Inventors: John Fini; Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  10. 20 9325151    Systems and techniques for compensation for the thermo-optic effect in active optical fibers
  Inventors: John Fini; Supradeepa V. S. Ramakrishna

  10. 20 9339890    Optimization and control of beam quality for material processing
  Inventors: Kenneth J. Woods; Sanjay Garg; Tate S. Picard

  10. 20 9366887    Systems and methods for laser systems with variable beam parameter product utilizing thermo-optic effects
  Inventors: Parviz Tayebati; Francisco VILLARREAL-SAUCEDO; Bien Chann; Dat Nguyen; Michael Deutsch

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Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 78 8796666    MOS devices with strain buffer layer and methods of forming the same
  Inventors: Yu-Lien Huang; Tung Ying Lee; Chung-Hsien Chen; Chi-Wen Liu

  1. 78 9548303    FinFET devices with unique fin shape and the fabrication thereof
  Inventors: Yi-Jing Lee; Cheng-Hsien Wu; Chih-Hsin Ko; Clement Hsingjen Wann

  3. 77 9093530    Fin structure of FinFET
  Inventors: Gin-Chen Huang; Ching-Hong Jiang; Neng-Kuo Chen; Sey-Ping Sun; Clement Hsingjen Wann

  3. 77 9215293    System and method for augmented and virtual reality
  Inventors: Samuel A. Miller

  5. 65 5317663    One-piece SC adapter
  Inventors: Michael S. Beard; Curtis Lee Puetz; James W. Conroy

  6. 58 8964298    Video display modification based on sensor input for a see-through near-to-eye display
  Inventors: John D. Haddick; Ralph F. Osterhout

  7. 57 8950867    Three dimensional virtual and augmented reality display system
  Inventors: John Graham Macnamara

  8. 56 7674650    Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
  Inventors: Kengo Akimoto; Tatsuya Honda; Norihito Sone

  8. 56 9417452    Display system and method
  Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt; Samuel A. Miller

  10. 54 9547174    Apparatus for optical see-through head mounted display with mutual occlusion and opaqueness control capability
  Inventors: Chunyu Gao; Yuxiang Lin; Hong Hua

 
 
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