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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate image data of a viable tissue in a short time. SOLUTION: The focal information generating device 2 receives a first reflected light beam Lr1 separated from a reflected light beam Lr and a second reflected light beam Lr2 passing through a pinhole plate 36. A signal processing unit 13 calculates a sum signal SS and a difference signal SD, and also uniform reflectance RE expressing a ratio of light quantity of the second reflected light beam Lr2 to the first reflected light beam Lr1. A supervisory control unit 11 detects a position Z1 equivalent to an upper surface 104A of a cover glass 104 based on the sum signal SS or the difference signal SD, and also detects a position Z3 expressing the viable tissue 102 based on the sum signal and the uniform reflectance RE. As a result, the supervisory control unit 11 can calculate a cover distance DM from the upper surface 104A of the cover glass 104 in a pathological slide glass 100 to the viable tissue 102 based on the positions Z1 and Z3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device which not only detects light guided in an optical waveguide formed using a semiconductor layer on an insulating film of a substrate easily at low cost, but also reduces loss of light due to reflection and radiation. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device has a photodetector 70 including: the semiconductor layer 15 formed on the substrate 11 with the insulating film 12 interposed; the optical waveguide 61 having the semiconductor layer formed in a prescribed thickness along a prescribed path; and a MISFET having a channel body 71 connected to the optical waveguide 61 and a gate for forming a channel formed on an upper surface side of the channel body 71. An insulating part region 78 for electric isolation from other transistors is disposed in a region different from the part of the optical waveguide 61. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oscillator and an optical detecting circuit that detect light guided in an optical waveguide easily at low cost and include semiconductor devices with high optical detection sensitivity. SOLUTION: A plurality of inverters INV are connected in series, an inverter output of a final stage is connected to an inverter input of an initial stage, and at least one of a MOS transistor PT and a MOS transistor NT of an inverter functions as a photodetector including an optical waveguide. The photodetector includes a semiconductor layer formed on a substrate with an insulating film interposed, the optical waveguide 61 having the semiconductor layer formed in a prescribed thickness along a prescribed path, and an insulating gate field-effect transistor having a channel body connected to the optical waveguide 61, and a gate for forming a channel formed on an upper surface side of the channel body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact recording medium manufacturing apparatus simple in structure, operability and maintenance, and to provide a manufacturing device of a recording medium master disk. SOLUTION: The manufacturing apparatus used in a step for irradiating a material layer formed on a substrate with laser light according to a recording pattern includes: a holding means 41 holding the substrate 11 with the material layer having a required reflectance formed thereon by irradiation with the laser light 13; a laser light source part 42; a modulating means 43 modulating the laser light from the laser light source 42 according to the recording pattern in a frequency higher than the period of the recording pattern; an optical system 45 having condenser lens systems condensing the laser light on the material layer; a moving means moving a position irradiated with the laser light to the material layer; and a focusing adjustment layer 50 detecting returned light from the material layer to perform focusing adjustment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To guide light rays from an optical waveguide to a channel body of a transistor portion with efficiency while suppressing guide wave loss. SOLUTION: The semiconductor device has a semiconductor layer formed on a semiconductor substrate 11 with an insulating film 12 interposed therebetween and having a ridge structure portion made partially thick, an optical waveguide composed of a lengthwise partial region of the ridge structure portion and having a light path along the length, and a transistor portion constituted using the other lengthwise partial region of the ridge structure portion on the path of the optical waveguide. The channel body 16 of the transistor portion is formed continuously from the optical waveguide using the other lengthwise partial area of the ridge structure portion. Further, side wall portions 15C are formed on both side surfaces of the channel body 16 continuously from the optical waveguide. A drain region 15A and a source region 15B are formed in regions which are made less in film thickness than the ridge structure portion of the semiconductor layer and adjacent to the channel body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the frequency of an optical signal high without any electrical burdening. SOLUTION: An optical pulse with a comparatively wide wavelength width is emitted from a light source and is entered into an incident side optical waveguide of a wavelength filtering device having no wavelength selectivity (S10), and modulated light with a periodical wavelength interval is generated by a microring resonator (S12). The optical pulse is input into a wavelength dispersing device and is subjected to a processing, the speed of which varies according to the wavelength so as to be separated into independent time pulses for every wavelength (S16). From the wavelength dispersing device an optical pulse string (a time intensity modulating signal) the intensity of which is modulated in a time-axis direction of a frequency higher than that of incident light, is output. Because the wavelength filtering device and the wavelength dispersing device are passive components, the optical pulse string with a higher frequency is obtained without any electrical burdening. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a solid-state image sensing device capable of sufficiently absorbing a light even in a transistor having a thin semiconductor-substrate thickness. SOLUTION: The solid-state image sensing device has a light guide 120 guiding the light in the in-plane direction and a grating coupler 140 converting the propagation direction of the light projected from a light incidence-plane 120a into the in-plane direction of the light guide 120. TFTs 110 are arranged in a two-dimensional shape along the in-plane direction of the light guide 120. The light projected from the surface of the light guide 120 is converted by the grating coupler 140 so that the light propagation direction is changed into the in-plane direction of the light guide 120. The light converting its propagation direction is advanced in the in-plane direction in the light guide 120, and an image information is acquired by a detection by the TFTs 110 in the progressive process of the light. Since the light is propagated along the surfaces of the TFTs 110 arranged along the in-plane direction of the light guide 120, the light is absorbed easily to the TFTs 110, and the light-receiving sensibility is improved with the lengthening of lengths in the light progressive direction of the TFTs 110. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology whereby each unit can simply be configured at a low cost without the need for provision of a light emitting element and the communication capacity of which can easily be increased. SOLUTION: Optical waveguide paths 150A, 150B guide light with a prescribed wavelength including no data information, that is, null data supplied from a light emitting section 170. Optical waveguide paths 160A, 160B of a ring shape guide light with a prescribed wavelength including data information respectively. Modulation function sections 112 to 142 guide light with a wavelength in response to other unit from the optical waveguide paths 150A, 150B to the optical waveguide paths 160A, 160B in a state of modulating the light with transmission data TDA, TDB when transmitting the data to the other unit. Light receiving functions 113 to 143 respectively extract the light with a wavelength in response to its own unit from the optical waveguide paths 160A, 160B to obtain received data RDA, RDB. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal device in which delay of response time at low temperature is solved and its temperature adjusting method, and to provide a practical optical pickup device and an optical recording/reproducing device using the liquid crystal device. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal device 20 comprises a pair of substrates 21, 22, a liquid crystal 23 interposed in between, and electrodes 24, 25 respectively disposed on the insides of the pair of substrates 21, 22, wherein a fine pattern 29 which does not affect phase distribution of light passing through the liquid crystal device is formed on at least one electrode 25 out of the electrodes, and a pair of electrode terminals are arranged on the electrode 25 with the fine pattern 29 formed thereon. Temperature adjustment is conducted by applying a voltage to the electrode terminals to make the electrode 25 function as a heater, and by heating the liquid crystal 23. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an actuator and an optical pickup wherein each liquid crystal element is capable of giving a desired phase distribution to transmitted light even if two phase modulation liquid crystal elements are different from each other in liquid crystal layer thicknesses. SOLUTION: A phase modulation device used for the optical pickup includes first and second liquid crystal elements. The first liquid crystal element has a pair of substrates, a first counter electrode 54 arranged in one substrate 50, and a plurality of first electrodes arranged in the other substrate. The second liquid crystal element has a pair of substrates, a second counter electrode 55 arranged in one substrate 50, and a plurality of second electrodes arranged in the other substrate. The same common voltages (Vcom) 101 are applied to the first and second counter electrodes 54 and 55, the same first signal voltages (Vs1) 102 are applied to parts of the first and second electrodes, a second signal voltage (Vs2) 103 is applied to the first electrode except its part, and a third signal voltage (Vs3) 104 is applied to the second electrode other than its part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI