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Optischer Wellenleiter (4), aufweisend:eine Mehrzahl von linearen Kernen (2), die in einer Ebene in Form eines Einschichtkerns angeordnet sind, eine Kombination von zueinander nicht parallelen Kernen (2) in der Ebene aufweisen und aus einem Werkstoff mit einem Brechungsindex n2 hergestellt sind;einen Mantel (3), der die Mehrzahl von Kernen (2) umgibt, so angeordnet, dass er gemäß der Anordnungsbeziehung zu der Mehrzahl von Kernen (2) Grenzflächen bildet und aus einem Werkstoff mit einem Brechungsindex n3 hergestellt ist; undKernkreuzungsräume (1), die von der Mehrzahl einander kreuzender Kerne (2) gebildet werden und aus einem Werkstoff mit einem Brechungsindex n1 hergestellt sind,wobei eine Differenz zwischen den Brechungsindizes wie folgt eingestellt ist: n1 (Kernkreuzung (1)) > n2 (Kern (2)) > n3 (Mantel (3)),ein Deckel (5), der aus einem Werkstoff mit dem Brechungsindex n2 hergestellt ist, auf der oberen und unteren Ebene des Kernkreuzungsraumes (1) angeordnet wird, undein Brechunsindexverhältnis n2/n3 an einer gemäß der Anordnungsbeziehung zwischen dem Kern (2) und dem Mantel (3) gebildeten Grenzfläche gleich einem Brechungsindexverhältnis n1/n2 an einer gemäß der Anordnungsbeziehung zwischen dem Kernkreuzungsraum (1) und dem Deckel (5) gebildeten Grenzfläche ist.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the amount of optical loss at six planes of a core intersection space (typically having a rectangular parallelepiped shape) formed by intersection of a plurality of optical waveguide cores.SOLUTION: In an intersection structure comprising a plurality of cores 2 and a clad 3 that surrounds the cores 2, the same material as that of the cores 2 is added to two planes, i.e., upper and lower planes, of intersection spaces where the plurality of cores 2 intersect (instead of using a clad material). In an alternative intersection structure comprising cores 2 and a clad 3, four planes that divide (isolate) the intersection spaces where the plurality of cores 2 intersect, that is, four discontinuity spaces 6 between the core intersection space and the cores connected thereto, are filled with the same material as that of the clad 3 (instead of using a core material so as to be connected seamlessly).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical coupling structure for interfacing between an optical device arranged on a substrate with an optical waveguide formed on the substrate. SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing an optical coupling element includes steps for: preparing a wafer 130 formed on an inorganic solid material on a dicing tape 140; cutting the back surface of the wafer 130 to form substantially angled portions using a dicing blade 142 having a point angle; and stripping the dicing tape 140 from the wafer 130 and separating the wafer at the valleys between the substantially angled portions to obtain a three-dimensional polyhedral light-reflecting member 114, which includes a mirror surface corresponding to a surface M of the wafer 130, as an optical coupling element. The obtained optical coupling element 114 is inserted into a trench, which opens in the substrate main surface of an optical transmission substrate 100 while crossing the optical waveguide 106a of the optical transmission substrate 100 substantially perpendicularly, to provide an optical coupling structure with the outside. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sufficiently uniform and random discrete pattern. SOLUTION: The pattern is formed of two-dimensionally arranged discrete dots and the dots are generated through the use of a low discrepancy sequence. It is discovered that the favorable and uniform discrete pattern is provided, when D being the square of a discrepancy satisfies fixed relation with the number N of the dots included in a section. The dots are automatically generated or erased in connection with a filling factor so that the excellent discrete pattern is provided even when the filling factor is rapidly changed. An excellent blue noise characteristic is given to the discrete pattern and also the excellent dithering pattern of a gradation picture is also given to the discrete pattern.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a backlight device capable of generating an output light spreading at an angle smaller than 10-degree FWHM, requiring a lower manufacturing cost and improving the usage efficiency of a light from a light source. SOLUTION: A backlight device has a wedged light conductor of refraction factor n1 having an upper face, a bottom face and side faces, a light source for applying a light to the side faces of the wedged light conductor, a first light transmissive layer of refraction factor n2, smaller than the refraction factor n1, having an upper face and a bottom face, the upper face of the first light transmissive layer being mounted on the bottom face of the wedged light conductor, and a light deflecting layer having an upper face mounted on the bottom face of the first transmissive layer for deflecting an incident light from the first light transmissive layer toward the upper face of the wedged light conductor.
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PURPOSE: To prevent optical destruction of crystal as a wavelength conversion element to obtain a high wavelength conversion efficiency by providing a converging optical system which converges incident laser light on a wavelength conversion element in an optical resonator and makes the section of a light beam noncircular. CONSTITUTION: A continuous oscillation type argon laser 5 emits coherent laser light 9. A plane mirror 6 and a concave mirror 7 form a Fabry-Perot resonator 15 where a standing wave is generated between them. Cylindrical lenses 12 and 13 converges laser light 9 from the laser medium 5, which is reciprocated in the resonator 15, toward a wavelength conversion element 14 and make the section of the converged laser light beam noncircular, preferably, elliptic. That is, the component in the direction of the YZ plane of the wavelength conversion element 14 is much converged but that in the direction of the ZX plane is not so converged. Cylindrical lenses 12 and 13 reduces convergence in the ZX plane to converge the light on the wavelength conversion element 14 and not only avoid concentration of energy to prevent optical destruction but also improve the convergence rate in the YZ plane to improve the wavelength conversion efficiency.
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A method is provided for modifying a photosensitive chemical material which controls exposure to make spectral intensity ratio constant, adjusts the pre-tilt angles of a liquid crystal orientation film easily and accurately, and gives desired properties to the photosensitive chemical material. A photosensitive chemical material is patterned by the photochemical reaction of a photosensitive chemical material. The photosensitive chemical material is irradiated with light emitted from a light source having a line spectrum having almost single wavelength between 200 nm and 300 nm (for example, a low pressure mercury lamp or a laser lamp) according to a pattern to control the reaction of the photosensitive chemical material. Also, the photosensitive chemical material is irradiated with light having a wavelength of 300 nm or longer to make the photosensitive chemical material cause a reaction to occur that selectively generates active oxygen. Also, the photosensitive chemical material is irradiated with ultraviolet light in an atmospheric gas containing desired functional groups in order to introduce the functional groups into the positions of radicals generated by the decomposition reaction of the photosensitive chemical material due to photochemical reaction.
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PURPOSE: To provide a liquid crystal display device which has excellent visual characteristics with a simple process. CONSTITUTION: A color filter board and a TFT board are nearly evenly coated with polyimide so as to form an orientation film (S1) Rubbing is performed to each board (S2). Each board, to which rubbing is performed, is irradiated with the ultraviolet rays of the linear polarization polarized in the direction along the rubbing direction (S3). A side chain of polyimide in the direction along the linear polarization is thereby cut, and a side chain of the polyimide related to the only pre-tilt angle of liquid crystal can be cut so as to change the pre-tilt angle of the liquid crystal. Each board are arranged opposite to each other with the predetermined cell gap, and periphery is sealed, and liquid crystal is filled between both the boards (S4, S5), and a polarizing plate is attached to the outer surface so as to finish the liquid crystal display device.
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PURPOSE: To reduce the power dissipating amounts of a bit line by providing a DRAM structure using a variable precharge voltage detecting technique. CONSTITUTION: In the end of a row address storage(RAS) cycle, a bit line 10 and a complementary bit 12 are short-circuited, and short-circuited through a line 32 with VEQ by equalizing devices 18, 20, and 22, and balancing is operated by bit line precharge in the next RAS cycle. This voltage is higher than the precharge voltage in the previous cycle. When a capacitance 88 of a memory cell to which access is performed stores 0V, the bit line precharge voltage is made lower than that in the previous RAS cycle. When a high level is stored in the cell capacitance of the cell connected with a word line and accessed in each following cycle, the same sequence is repeated in the following RAS cycle, and the bit line precharge voltage is increased in each cycle. Then, a bit line power can not be drawn from a DRAM power source by the balancing with a bit line pair voltage.
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PURPOSE: To spatially separate fundamental waves and generated light in a wavelength converter using a nonlinear optical element for generating light having wavelength different from incident fundamental waves. CONSTITUTION: This converter utilizes a lens element for convergence inside the converter or the nonlinear optical element and spatially separates the light generated in the nonlinear optical element from the fundamental waves. For instance, a cylindrical lens 13 for adjusting the size of light beams is arranged at least at the rear part of a nonlinear optical crystal 12 for waveform conversion and the light beam emitted from the crystal 12 is passed through to a tip part separated from the center axis of the lens 13. Thus, the light beam receives a prism effect and the generated light B is separated from the fundamental waves A and propagated by the retractive index dispersion of the lens 13.