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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new structure for fixing an optical waveguide element to reduce optical loss during an operation for the optical waveguide device using an optical waveguide element which is relatively small in the thickness of at least a portion where electrodes are formed and enables high speed modulation. SOLUTION: An optical waveguide element 10 is provided with a substrate 1 which is provided with a pair of main surfaces that are opposed to each other and has an electrooptical effect, an optical waveguide 2 which is formed on one of main surfaces 1A of the substrate 1, electrodes 3 which apply modulation signals to light waves that propagate in the waveguide 2, and a thin thickness portion 5 which is formed at least at the position where the electrodes 3 are located on the substrate 1 and has a relatively thin thickness. The element 10 is fixed to a plate shaped member 12 by first fixing adhesive 13. The member 12 is fixed to a base 11 by second fixing adhesive 15 so that the member 12 is placed between the element 10 and a casing 11.
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PURPOSE: To provide an illumination method used for optical fiber structure measurement which can improve measurement accuracy. CONSTITUTION: In an illumination method used when one end face of an optical fiber 1 is photographed by a CCD camera 4, a photographed image is image- processed by an image processor 5 and structure of the optical fiber 1 is measured, the other end face of the optical fiber 1 is irradiated with light from a light source 7 and transparent illumination is performed by an illumination device 8 for irradiating the CCD camera 4 with light from rearward of the optical fiber 1 at one end face.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a piezoelectric thin-film device of which characteristics are improved. SOLUTION: In a piezoelectric thin-film filter 1 including four piezoelectric thin-film resonators R11-R14, a filter section 11, which provides the filter function of the piezoelectric thin-film filter 1, is adhered to a flat base substrate 13, which supports the filter section 11 mechanically, via an adhesive layer 12. In the piezoelectric thin-film filter 1, a piezoelectric body thin film 119 is adhered to the base substrate 13 via a cavity formation film 114 formed in a non-excitation region E1X in the piezoelectric body thin film 111, thus retaining excitation regions E11-E14 of the piezoelectric body thin film 111 in the air without any control, and preventing the upper and lower surfaces of the excitation regions E11-E14 from coming into contact with other portions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the degree of freedom when selecting a crystal orientation in a piezoelectric material for composing a piezoelectric thin film and a piezoelectric thin film in a piezoelectric thin-film device. SOLUTION: In a piezoelectric thin-film filter 1 including four piezoelectric thin-film resonators R11-R14, a filter section 11, which provides the filter function of the piezoelectric thin-film filter 1, is adhered to a flat base substrate 13, which supports the filter section 11 mechanically, via an adhesive layer 12. When the piezoelectric thin-film filter 1 is manufactured, the piezoelectric thin film 111 is obtained by performing removal processing to a piezoelectric substrate. However, since the piezoelectric thin film 111 obtained by the removal processing cannot carry its own weight by itself, a prescribed member including the piezoelectric substrate is adhered to the base substrate 13 used as a support in advance prior to the removal processing. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a characteristic such as an insertion loss, etc., of light from deteriorating even when a heat shock or a heat cycle is applied in a wide temp. range. SOLUTION: An optical transmission member fixing device is provided with a substrate 17 provided with a housing groove 9 housing a core wire 8 and a cap 15 integrated with the substrate 17. A housing space 39 housing at least a coating part of an optical transmission member is provided between the substrate and the cap. The size of the housing space is larger than the size of the housing groove in viewing in the width direction of the optical transmission member. An adhesives 20 for fixing the core wire is filled up to the surround of the core wire 8 in the housing groove 9. The adhesives 21, 22 for fixing the optical transmission member is filled up to the surround of the optical transmission member in the housing space 39. The thickness of the adhesive surrounding the optical transmission member 8 in a boundary area 27 between the housing space 39 and the housing groove 9 is reduced continuously toward the housing groove 9 at least in the vicinity of the opening 9a of the end of the housing groove 9.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coupling structure which suppresses the deterioration in the propagation characteristic of light of optical waveguides in the coupling structure for the optical waveguides and optical fibers using dolly plates. SOLUTION: The dolly plates 22 and 30 are fixed onto both ends of an LiNbO3 substrate 11 formed with the Ti-diffused optical waveguide 13. The recessed part 24 of the dolly plate 22 is disposed on the optical waveguides 16 and 17 and the recessed part 34 of the dolly plate 30 is disposed on the optical waveguide 15 to prevent the direct contact of the bases of the dolly plates 22 and 30 with the optical waveguides 15, 16, 17. The dolly plate 22 reinforces the joining of the LiNbO3 substrate 11, a ceramic substrate 62 holding the bare optical fiber 70 and a quartz cap 64. The dolly plate 30 plays the role of joining of the LiNbO3 substrate 11, a ceramic substrate 82 holding the bare optical fiber 90 and a quartz cap 84.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppresses coupling loss between an optical modulator and an outside optical fiber and coupling loss inside the optical modulator, in the optical modulator which achieves velocity matching by adopting a thin plate with a thickness of 10 μm or less in an optical modulation section. SOLUTION: The optical modulator 10A includes: a support substrate 1; a substrate 3 for modulation comprising an electro-optical material; an optical waveguide 4 which is provided on one principal surface 3a side of the substrate 3 for modulation; an electrode which is provided on another principal surface 3b side of the substrate 3 for modulation and applies voltage for modulating light propagating in the optical waveguide; and an adhesive layer 2 which adheres one principal surface 3a of the substrate 3 for modulation to the support substrate 1. The substrate 3 for modulation includes: a modulation section 7 with a thickness of 10 μm or less for at least performing modulation of light propagating in the optical waveguide 4; and an optical fiber connection 6 thicker than the modulation section 7. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of accurately and efficiently forming a large number of through holes, in producing a slab type two-dimensional photonic crystal structure having a slab composed of a dielectric single crystal and a grid row formed by the through holes. SOLUTION: The method includes a recess forming process in which one main face 1a of a substrate 1 composed of a dielectric single crystal is etched to form recesses 4 in the substrate 1 and a through hole forming process in which the other face 1b of the substrate 1 is mechanically processed to form a slab 10, so that the recesses 4 pass through the substrate 1 to form through holes 11. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PURPOSE: To provide a measuring method of the maintained polarization plane of a polarization plane maintaining optical fiber in which a maintained polarization plane can be obtained easily and precisely. CONSTITUTION: A one-end surface 1a of a polarization plane maintaining optical fiber 1 is picked up from the frontal surface by means of a CCD camera 4, a picked up image is image-processed by means of an image processing unit 5, the maintained wave polarization plane of the polarization plane maintaing optical fiber can be thereby measured. It is desirable to make while light incident from a one-end surface picked up by means of the polarization plane maintaing optical fiber and the other end surface on the opposite side and to take an image processing method in which the inertial main axis of a binarized image of a core is obtained and the obtained inertial main axis is obtained as a maintained polarization plane in order to measure the maintained polarization plane precisely.
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PURPOSE:To couple the end face of a light guide, formed on the light guide substrate, with the end face of an optical fiber with high accuracy without aligning their optical axes. CONSTITUTION:The bottom face and/or flank of a substrate material is selected as a reference face. The substrate material is divided into a light substrate material and, for example, a couple of substrate materials for optical fiber arraying. The light guide 6 is formed on the surface of the light guide substrate material by using the reference face after the division as a position reference to obtain the light guide substrate 14. A V groove 5 is formed in the surface of each substrate material for optical fiber arraying by using the reference face after the division as the position reference to form the couple of substrates 13A and 13B for optical fiber arraying. An optical fiber 7 is put in each V grooves 5. The end faces 9 and 19 formed by driving the substrate material are coupled together again. At this time, the end face of the light guide 6 and the end face of the optical fiber 7 are coupled with each other.