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PURPOSE:To improve mass-productivity and characteristic by forming an optical waveguide element so that the distance from the surface to the center axis at the light incident end of the waveguide is coincident with the distance from the surface of a semiconductor laser to the center axis at an emitting end. CONSTITUTION:The optical waveguide element 21 provided an optical waveguide on a ferroelectric substance 12 and the semiconductor laser 1 are mechanically integrated by opposing adjacently the emitting end 2a of the semiconductor laser to the light incident end 15a of the optical waveguide. The distance H2 from the surface 21a of the optical waveguide element 21 to the center axis of the light incident end 15a of the optical waveguide is made coincident with the distance H1 from the surface 1a of the semiconductor laser 1 to the emitting end. Consequently, by juxtaposing both on the substrate 32 on the common plane, since the center axis of the emitting end 2a of the semiconductor laser 1 is made coincident with the axis of the light incident end 15a of the optical waveguide in the optical waveguide element 21 at least in height, i.e., in the vertical position, positioning of both axes is simplified.
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PURPOSE:To form a polarization inversion structure without causing the surface contamination, refractive index variation, crystal breakage, etc., of a ferroelectric material. CONSTITUTION:On the ferroelectric material 10 after single polarization, 1st and 2nd electrodes 1 and 2 are arranged in the polarizing direction and at least the 1st electrode 1 is formed in pattern corresponding to the pattern of polarization inversion structure which is obtained finally; and a voltage of 1-100kV/mm is applied between the 1st and 2nd electrodes 1 and 2 so that a negative potential is applied to the negative side of self-polarization of the ferroelectric material 10 and a positive potential is applied to the positive size, thus forming the polarization inversion structure.
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PURPOSE:To easily form a periodic domain inversion structure part which has a fine pitch with high accuracy without causing variation in refractive index by arranging a 1st and a 2nd electrode opposite each other on the mutually opposite main surfaces of a nonlinear ferrodielectric optical material body which is formed into a single domain, and applying a pulse voltage between those electrodes and performing domain control. CONSTITUTION:On the mutually opposite main surfaces of the nonlinear ferrodielectric optical material body 1 which is made into the single domain, the 1st and 2nd electrodes 11 and 12 are provided directly opposite each other. At least one of those opposite electrodes 11 and 12 is formed on a necessary electrode pattern, i.e. the domain inversion part according to the pattern and the necessary pulse voltage is applied between those the opposite electrodes 11 and 12 to perform the domain control which locally forms the domain inversion part 3 in pattern corresponding to the electrode pattern. Consequently, the fine pitch and pattern can be formed with high accuracy, and the applied pulse voltage is controlled to easily perform thickness control over an inverted domain with high accuracy.
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PURPOSE:To control the thickness of inverting domains with ease and high accuracy by impressing a DC voltage between 1st and 2nd electrodes provided on both sides of a nonlinear ferroelectric optical material of single domain to generate the domain inverting parts. CONSTITUTION:The 1st and 2nd electrodes 11 and 12 are deposited and formed on both main surfaces of the nonlinear ferroelectric optical material 1 of the single domain. The DC voltage is impressed to this material 1 in a required atmosphere by throwing a DC power source 13 for the required period of time between both electrode terminals. The periodic domain inverting structure parts 3 in which the inverting domains of the direction reverse from the +c axis heating from the electrode 11 toward 12 have the pitch corresponding to the pitch 2A of the stripe patterns of the electrode 11 are obtd. in this way. The electrodes 11, 12 are then removed and the light guides 2 having the refractive index made larger than the refractive index of the material body 1 having the inverting structure parts 3 are formed on the main surface side of the material body 1. The material body 1 is cut to remove the comb-shaped connecting parts connecting the parallel stripe patterns of the material body 1 exclusive of the domain inverting parts thereof, by which the second harmonic wave generating element formed with the inverting structures 3 across the waveguide structure is obtd.
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PURPOSE:To obtain a circular second harmonic wave radiation beam by forming the section of a light guide formed on a nonlinear optical substrate to a specific shape. CONSTITUTION:The light guide 2 formed on the nonlinear optical material 1 is formed larger in the width (a) of the plane parallel with the surface of the substrate 1 and the width (b) of the plane in the depth direction than the cut-off thickness to a basic wave in the generation of the second harmonic wave by Cherenkov radiation. The light guide is also so formed as to be smaller in the depth (a) of the plane parallel with the surface and larger in the width (b) of the plane in the depth direction than the cut off thickness to the second harmonic wave. The second harmonic wave propagated from the light guide 2 in which the basic wave is confined to the substrate 1 is, therefore, propagated near the surface of the substrate 1. The shape of the radiation beam of the second harmonic wave radiated form the substrate is improved to the circular or elliptic shape in this way.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to adjust the position of a focus without changing the interval of a virtually formed pupil.SOLUTION: A stereoscopic image pickup device includes an objective optical system having a function that forms a subject as a real image or a virtual image. The stereoscopic image pickup device also includes a plurality of imaging optical systems 20 that cause a plurality of subject luminous fluxes output from different routes of the objective optical system 10 to be formed again as a parallax image by a plurality of independent optical systems. The stereoscopic image pickup device further includes a plurality of imaging devices 202 for converting the parallax image image-formed by the plurality of imaging optical systems 20 into an image signal. After that, the stereoscopic image pickup device causes the front side principal point s of each imaging optical system 20 to be located or moved so that the ratio of the length of a vertical line when the vertical line is drawn down from each front side principal point s to the optical axis Ax1 of the objective optical system 10 to the length of the line segment connecting between the intersection x where the vertical line and the optical axis of the objective optical system intersects and the focal point f of the objective optical system 10 becomes constant.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a deformable mirror device capable of suppressing the deterioration of flatness of a mirror plane due to the stress caused when being attached to another device and also suppressing the device from being large in size. SOLUTION: The device has such structure that a strength securing member is inserted between a flexible member on which a mirror plane is formed and a base substrate. By this structure, the influence of the force based on the stress to the flexible member can be effectively suppressed even when the stress is caused in the mirror device when it is attached to the other device, consequently, deterioration of flatness of the mirror plane can be suppressed. Also by such structure where a function of strength securing is achieved by separately provided strength securing member but not by the flexible member side, when strength is secured, cross section thickness of the strength securing member can be expanded to an inner peripheral direction side but not to an outer peripheral direction. Thereby, the deformable mirror device can be effectively prevented from increasing in size when strength is secured. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To uniformize a light quantity distribution on a two-dimensional optical sensor of a diffracted light at the reproduction of a hologram memory. SOLUTION: An optical sensor means is allowed to be irradiated with the diffracted light through a light quantity filter means 6 of which transmissivity is made different in the radial direction of beam sectional plane of the diffracted light. This light quantity filter means 6 is arranged at the position on an optical path, where the light quantity distribution of the diffracted light becomes the same as the light quantity distribution on the optical sensor means. Then, a light quantity distribution difference is corrected by setting the transmissivity with the light quantity filter means so that the transmissivity is different in the radial direction, and the diffracted light is arranged so as to be made incident on the optical sensor means 5 at an almost uniform light quantity level in the radial direction of beam. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase data readout rate and to suppress crosstalk, in an optical waveguide type hologram recording medium. SOLUTION: A two-layer structure is provided to, for example, one cladding layer 4 of two cladding layers 3, 4 so stacked that a core layer 2 as an optical waveguide on which reference light B1 is made incident is held between these, and a hologram pattern is formed between the two layers of the cladding layer 4. At this time, the first cladding layer 4a kept in contact with the core layer 2 is made of a photorefractive material whose refractive index rises upon irradiation with access light B2 different from the reference light B1, so that diffracted light according to the hologram pattern 5 can be emitted to the outside only in the irradiated region. As a result, light utilization efficiency increases to increase data readout rate, and stray light is controlled to suppress crosstalk. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for realizing ROM/RAM compatibility and low-order compatibility in a recording/reproducing system using a multilayer optical disk or the like having, e.g., 10 layers or more. SOLUTION: First and second laser light source means are included. For the wavelengths of laser beams, the wavelength of a first laser beam for obtaining a reflected light for reproduction and servo and a substantial wavelength for recording, i.e., the wavelength of 1/2 of the wavelength of a second laser beam, are prevented from overlapping each other. The substantial wavelength becomes a wavelength of 1/2 of the wavelength of the first laser beam because the wavelength becomes half in the process of two-photon absorption. Thus, freedom is obtained for setting absorbance and reflectance in the recording layer of a recording medium, i.e., film designing, thereby enabling ROM/RAM compatibility. A land/groove is formed in each recording layer of the recording medium, and the focus positions of the first and second laser beams are roughly matched with each other. Thus, an advantageous configuration is provided regarding the easiness and low-order compatibility of a servo operation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI