Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Nippon Sheet Glass

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Masahiro Oikawa

Kenjiro Hamanaka

Keiji Tsunetomo

Eiji Okuda

Tadashi Koyama

Tetsuya Yamasaki

Kouji Tanaka

Vladimir V Serikov

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

Fumiaki Funada

Hiroshi Hamada

Hiroyuki Nemoto

Koichiro Nakamura

Kenichi Nakama

Shigeo Kittaka

Katsuhide Shimmo

Hiroshi Miyajima

Takashi Kishimoto

Junichi Nakano

Takashi Shibatani

Atsushi Miyake

Yasuji Sasaki

Kenichi Asada

Shinya Kawakita

Noriaki Nagahata

Kenzou Sono

A surface of a substrate is coated with a sol solution containing metal alkoxide. A gelled material of the sol solution is pressed against a molding tool while the gelled material is kept soft. Thus, the gelled material is molded. Then, the gelled material is hardened. As a result, protrusions of the hardened gel layerare formed on the substrate so that an irregular texture substrate is formed. A multilayer thin film constituted by a plurality of layers of at least two kinds of materials with different refractive indexes is laminated on a surface of the irregular texture substrate.

Multilayer structure and method for manufacturing the same

A light detection device for detecting an optical path position of invisible light. The detection device includes a main body and a light guide. The light guide includes a distal end functioning as a light incident portion through which the detected light enters and a light radiation portion from which visible light is emitted. A drive mechanism reciprocates the light guide in an X-direction while vibrating the light guide in a perpendicular Y-direction. The distal end of the light guide rod moves within a light detection area in an XY plane. A visible light-emitting unit radiates visible light from the distal end when the detected light enters the distal end. The visible light-emitting unit includes a photo-detector for detecting the detected light and a light-emitting element for generating the visible light when the photo-detector detects the detected light.

Light detection device

In an optical monitor for monitoring signal lights from a plurality of optical fibers, emission surfaces of the plurality of optical fibers are arranged along a straight line, and a photodetecting surface of a photodetecting element disposed so as to face the emission surfaces is moved in parallel to the straight line along which the emission surfaces are arranged in such manner that light from each of the emission surfaces is received by the photodetecting element, so that the plurality of signal lights are made incident on the photodetecting element successively. The present optical monitor thereby is capable of monitoring a large number of transmission paths while requiring a small number of components.

Optical device, optical path switching device and optical path switching method

An optical communication system is designed to suppress the generation of cross talk even in the case of small wavelength spacing and high bit-rate modulation. An Nth order harmonic generating device where N is an integer of 2 or larger is positioned before a demultiplexer to upconver the frequency or down convert the wavetlength of the light wave by N times. The frequency spacing between the carriers is increased and allows easier separation of the optical signal and permits denser WDM channels and/or higher data rate per channel. In addition, Si or GaAs based photodiodes may be used instead of InP based photodiodes since the 1550 nm bands are converted to 780 nm bands.

Optical communication system

An optical circuit is designed with demultiplexing and optical detection functionality with minimal crosstalk. An Nth order harmonic generation device is positioned before the demultiplexer to either convert the frequency or down convert the wavelength of the demultiplexed light wave by N-times. Upconverting the multiplexed signal at the receiver station is performed by either simultaneously upconverting N-times to create N times the original spacing between each optical channel or by upconverting the frequency of one optical channel at a time.

Optical circuit with harmonic generator

Optical device

A laser processing method for removing glass by melting, evaporation or ablation from sheet-like glass substrate for forming microscopic concavities and convexities. Diffraction grating and planar microlens array obtained thereby.

Method of changing the surface of a glass substrate containing silver, by using a laser beam

A projection-type image display device includes a transmissive image display panel having a matrix of pixels arranged at different pitches in different directions perpendicular to each other, and a planar microlens array for converging light emitted by a light source onto the transmissive image display panel. The planar microlens array comprises a substrate and a matrix of microlenses disposed on the substrate for converging the light onto the pixels, respectively, each of the microlenses being of an oblong shape. Each of the microlenses may have a longitudinal axis inclined with respect to an axis of the matrix of pixels to cover the pixel aperture of one of the pixels. The oblong shape of each of the microlenses may be composed of a pair of spaced identical semicircles and a rectangle interconnecting the identical semicircles and having sides of the same length as the diameter of the semicircles. Since the oblong microlenses are shaped to fully cover the pixel apertures of the corresponding pixels, the light from the light source is efficiently converged onto the pixels by the microlenses to produce light display images.

Transmissive image display device

Process of producing a magnetic disk substrate

In a plate microlens of the invention, wherein gradient index lenses each having an optical axis along a normal to a surface of a transparent base and a refractive index profile gradually changing along a direction of the optical axis and a direction perpendicular thereto are formed integrally in the transparent base; a ratio d/a (where d is a thickness of the gradient index lens on the optical axis and 2a is a diameter of the gradient index lens on a surface of the transparent base) falls within a range of 0.46 to 0.78. In a method for manufacturing a plate microlens of the invention, of forming integrally in a transparent base, gradient index lenses with a gradient index profile based on a concentration gradient of a substance for increasing the refractive index of the transparent base, by forming a diffusion preventive mask with predetermined apertures on a surface of the transparent base and diffusing the substance into the transparent base through the apertures; a ratio a/rm (where rm is a radius of the apertures and a is a radius of the gradient index lenses to be formed) satisfies a relation 1.75.ltoreq.a/rm.ltoreq.4.5.

Method of making a plate microlens

In a plate microlens of the invention wherein gradient index lenses each having an optical axis along a normal to a surface of a transparent base and a refractive index profile gradually changing along a direction of the optical axis and a direction perpendicular thereto are formed integrally in the transparent base, a ratio d/a (where d is a thickness of the gradient index lens on the optical axis and 2a is a diameter of the gradient index lens on a surface of the transparent base) falls within a range of 0.46 to 0.78. In a method for manufacturing a plate microlens of the invention of forming integrally in a transparent base gradient index lenses with a gradient index profile based on a concentration gradient of a substance for increasing the refractive index of the transparent base, by forming a diffusion preventive mask with predetermined apertures on a surface of the transparent base and diffusing the substance into the transparent base through the apertures, a ratio a/rm (where rm is a radius of the apertures and a is a radius of the gradient index lenses to be formed) satisfies a relation 1.75.ltoreq.a/rm.ltoreq.4.5.

Plate microlens and method for manufacturing the same

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Osaka, Japan

Masahiro Oikawa