| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090202189 | Optical control element - There is provided an optical control element in which non-guided light is prevented from entering into an optical waveguide and which is excellent in optical properties, such as optical modulation properties. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090297086 | Light Modulation Device - The present invention is directed to provide a light modulation device capable of not only restricting the faint light propagating in the adhesive layer from being re-incident on the thin substrate but also increasing an adhesive strength of the thin substrate and the supplementing plate. The invention is characterized in a light modulation device having a thin substrate | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090324156 | Light control device - To provide a light control device which is possible to realize a velocity matching between a microwave and an optical wave or an impedance matching of the microwaves even though a signal path having a high impedance of 70Ω or more, and is possible to reduce a driving voltage. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100034496 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A light control element is provided with a thin board having electro-optical effects; an optical waveguide formed on the thin board; and a control electrode for controlling light that passes through the optical waveguide. The light control element performs speed matching between a microwave signal applied to the control electrode and the light, impedance matching of the microwaves, reduction of a driving voltage and high speed operation. In the control electrode of the light control element, a signal electrode and a grounding electrode are arranged on an upper side of the thin board, and on a lower side of the thin board, a second electrode including the grounding electrode is arranged, through a low refractive index layer entirely formed in the length direction of the signal electrode, with a width wider than that of the signal electrode. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100046880 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE - In a light control element comprising a thin plate having a thickness of 10 [mu]m or less and exhibiting electro optic effect, an optical waveguide formed on the thin plate, and a control electrode for controlling light passing through the optical waveguide, the control electrode includes a first electrode and a second electrode so arranged as to sandwich the thin plate, and the first electrode has a coplanar electrode consisting of a first signal electrode and a ground electrode, while the second electrode has a second signal electrode. Modulation signals having mutually inverted amplitudes are inputted to the first signal electrode of the first electrode and the second signal electrode of the second electrode such that the modulation signals cooperate to apply an electric field to the optical waveguide. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100046881 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A light control element is provided with a thin board having electro-optical effects; an optical waveguide formed on the thin board; and a control electrode for controlling light that passes through the optical waveguide. The light control element performs speed matching between a microwave signal applied to the control electrode and the light, impedance matching of the microwaves, reduction of a driving voltage and high speed operation. In the control electrode of the light control element, a signal electrode and a grounding electrode are arranged on an upper side of the thin board, and on a lower side of the thin board, a second electrode including the grounding electrode is arranged. The second electrode is arranged not to exist below the signal electrode, especially for achieving impedance matching. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100104241 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING OPTICAL AXIS OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT - A method of adjusting the optical axis of an optical waveguide element which can improve a manufacturing yield of the optical waveguide element, an alignment yield between the optical waveguide element and an input waveguide means, etc. and can equalize the branch ratio in a Y-branch waveguide; and an optical waveguide element which can be made compact and also M inhibited from complication in structure by using this method. The optical waveguide element ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100232736 | Optical Control Device - It is an object to provide an optical control device capable of realizing speed matching between a microwave and a light wave or impedance matching of microwaves and of reducing a driving voltage. An optical control device including a thin plate | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110103735 | MACH-ZEHNDER WAVEGUIDE TYPE OPTICAL MODULATOR - It is intended to suppress the influence of a photorefractive phenomenon or the coupling of stray light to signal light. A Mach-Zehnder waveguide type optical modulator is provided which includes a thin plate | 05-05-2011 |