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PURPOSE:To obtain high light transmittance with respect to the wavelength band of 0.8mum, by providing a composition, which does not include Fe , in bismuth substituted yttrium magnetic garnet. CONSTITUTION:On a garnet substrate, whose light absorption is small, the magnetic garnet having the following specified composition is formed by liquid phase epitaxial growing from a solution comprising only Bi2O3 and garnet constituting element: Y3-x-delta1 Bix Mdelta1I Fe5-y-delta2-delta3 Mdelta2II MyIII Ptdelta3 O12-delta4 (MI is one or more kinds of any of Ca , Sr and Ba ; MII is one or more kinds of any of Be and Mg ; and MIII is one or more kinds of any of Ga and Al .) The garnet has high transmittance in the wavelength band of 0.8mum. The garnet is suitable as a Faraday rotary element in a light isolator for preventing returning light when a semiconductor laser using the 0.8mum wave length band is used as a light source for a recording and reproducing device of optical disks and optical and magnetic disks.
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PURPOSE:To reduce absorption of light on a 0.8mum band, by adding two-valence metal ions when ferri-magnetic garnet containing Lu and Bi is made to grow with flux of Bi2O3 simple substance by liquid-phase epitaxial growth method (LPE method). CONSTITUTION:Magnetic garnet, whose composition is expressed by a general formula (LuBi)3(FeM)5O12, where M is one kind or more of Al or Ga, is formed by liquid-phase epitaxial growth of both elements forming the above composition and molten liquid comprising Bi2O3. In this manufacture, IIA group element ions are added into the melt with the amount of nearly showing the minimum value of light absorption on a 0.8mum wavelength band. Thus, Bi-substituted magnetic garnet, whose light absorption is small on the 0.8mum wavelength band, can be obtained. Therefore, when this is used, for example, as a Faraday rotary element of a light isolator to employ semiconductor laser on the 0.8mum wavelength band, this interrupts returning-light to make the semiconductor laser stably operated. And, a high transmission factor relating to light in the forward direction, that is, low light loss can be realized.
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PURPOSE:To compensate the temperature characteristic in an excellent way with simple constitution without increasing power consumption by using a magnetic circuit comprising a permanent magnet and a magnetic adjusting plate made of soft ferrite whose magnetic characteristic is respectively specific so as to apply a DC bias magnetic field. CONSTITUTION:The magnetic circuit is formed by combining a permanent magnet whose remanence or average remanence at room temperature is a value or over expressed in equation I and whose linear temperature coefficient of the remanence or average remanence is a value or over expressed in equation II and the soft ferrite magnetic adjusting plate whose saturated magnetization or average saturated magnetization at room temperature is a value or over expressed in equation III and whose linear temperature coefficient at room temperature of them is a value or below expressed in equation IV. In applying a bias magnetic field to a microwave element utilizing the ferrimagnetic resonance in the magnetic circuit, a conditional equation is established, where the resonance frequency is a frequency f0 independently of temperature. Thus, excellent temperature compensation is applied without supplying external energy and increasing power consumption with simple constitution. In the equations above, f0 is operating frequency, gamma is gyromagnetic ratio, NZY is anti-magnetism coefficient of YIG, and 4piMSOY, alpha1Y is first-order temperature coefficient of saturated magnetization of YIG.
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PURPOSE:To avoid the decrease in light transmittance with respect to the wavelength band of 0.8mum, by providing a composition, which does not include Fe , in bismuth-substituted yttrium magnetic garnet. CONSTITUTION:On a garnet sustrate, whose light absorption is small, the magnetic garnet having the following specified composition is formed by liquid phase epitaxial growing from a solution comprising only Bi2O3 and garnet constituting element: Tm3-x-delta1BixMdelta1IFe5-y-delta2-delta3 Mdelta2IIMIIIy Ptdelta3 O12-delta4 (MI is one or more kinds of any of Ca , Sr and Ba ; MII is one or more kinds of any of Be and Mg ; and MIII is one or more kinds of any of Ga and Al.) The garnet has high transmittance in the wavelength band of 0.8mum. The garnet is suitable as a Faraday rotary element in a light isolator for preventing returning light when a semiconductor laser using the 0.8mum wavelength band is used as a light source for a recording and reproducing device of optical disks and optical and magnetic disks.
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PURPOSE:To obtain Bi substituted garnet whose optical absorption at a wave length band of 0.8mum is sufficiently small, by growing the garnet of prescribed composition containing a definite amount of Bi on the garnet substrate by epitaxial growth. CONSTITUTION:On the GGG substrate, R3-x-2deltaBixMI2deltaFe5-yMIIyO12--delta are grown by liquid phase epitaxy, wherein R represents one or more kinds of rare earth element, MI is one or more kinds of IIA group element, and MII is one or more kinds of trivalent Ga and Al. The values of (x) and (y) are selected within + or -15% of the center value to make the optical absorption at a wave length band of 0.8mum minimum, wherein 0.5 is prevented by growing Bi-substituted magnetic garnet in which Fe does not exist. The backward ray of the semiconductor laser at a wave length band of 0.8mum can be blocked by applying this magnetic material to the Faraday rotation element of a photo-isolator.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus and imaging method capable of reducing costs of the imaging apparatus by reducing storage capacity of a memory by reading images within an imaging range corresponding to a zoom magnification from a solid-state imaging device during digital zooming. SOLUTION: During digital zooming, a digital zoom setting section 22 sets a vertical imaging range of a CMOS image sensor 13 in accordance with a zoom magnification, and the CMOS image sensor 13 performs imaging within the set imaging range. When the zoom magnification is changed, a maximum exposure time of the CMOS image sensor 13 is arithmetically operated on the basis of zoom magnifications before and after the change in such a manner that a shutter signal after the change does not interfere with a read signal before the change, and an exposure time of the CMOS image sensor 13 is set so as not to exceed the arithmetically operated maximum exposure time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To implement an electronic shutter function by a simple circuit configuration in an imaging apparatus. SOLUTION: A read address R and drive controls for respective unit pixels of a shutter address S for setting a charge storage time in the read address are set in time division, and corresponding unit pixels are driven at prescribed timing. Respective addresses are designated using a common circuit to be able to drive unit pixels. Since a plurality of pieces of address information can be set using the common circuit without enlarging a circuit scale, the electronic shutter function can be implemented by the simple circuit configuration. Since a layout area can be reduced in comparison with a conventional system requiring the preparation of individual circuits for setting respective addresses, this method contributes to reduction in chip area and cost. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit a reference signal to all comparators exactly and at high speed when the reference signal is compared with a signal for processing and AD conversion is performed by counting time required for comparison processing by a counter. SOLUTION: A differential amplifier is used as a buffer amplifier 240 and the buffer amplifier 240 is arranged at the input side of a voltage comparison part 214. The reference signal is transmitted from a reference signal generation part 27 to the buffer amplifier 240 by differential signals RAMP+, - and a reference signal RAMPs of a single mode is generated by the buffer amplifier 240. After that, the reference signal RAMPs of the single mode is transmitted from the buffer amplifier 240 to the voltage comparison part 214. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PURPOSE:To contrive reduction in light absorption by a method wherein a bismuth garnet film is cooled slowly from the temperature of 600 deg.C or above. CONSTITUTION:A bismuth containing magnetic garnet film is formed using a vapor-phase epitaxial growth method. When said magnetic garnet film is being formed, the garnet film is slowly cooled from the heated state of at least 600 deg.C or above, or by heating it to the above-mentioned temperature, at the cooling speed slower than 500 deg.C per hour. As a result, Fe is reduced by oxidation when he magnetic garnet is N-type, and when the film is P-type Fe decreases by reduction. In other words, the Fe or the Fe which contribute light absorption are reduced. Consequently, the reduction in light absorption can be achieved.