Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nobuki Itoh

Hisashi Minemoto

Satoshi Ishizuka

Daisuke Ishiko

Yukiko Yoshikawa

Tsuguhiro Korenaga

Masaaki Tojo

Toshihiko Wada

Yoshihiro Tomita

Seiji Karashima

Satoru Tomekawa

Yasushi Nakagiri

Kunio Hibino

Mikihiro Shimada

Hirokazu Yamada

A portable device has a configuration such that a plurality of housings are connected functionally, wherein the thickness of a connection section between the housings is reduced so that the portability is improved. The portable device includes a first housing; a first board provided in the first housing; a second housing; a second board provided in the second housing; a connection section for connecting the first housing with the second housing in such a manner that their relative position can be changed; and an optical waveguide film having at least one optical waveguide for connecting the first board with the second board through optical wiring.

Portable device

An optical package substrate and a molding method therefor which provide for easy production, easy mounting of optical elements such as photodiodes and lasers, good functionality, productivity and economy, and an optical device incorporating the package substrate. On the surface of an optical package substrate, a guide groove used for the positioning of an optical fiber and a tapered face adjoining the guide groove are provided, the tapered face being formed to have a predetermined angle. A mirror for reflecting light is formed on the tapered face. An optical fiber is affixed in the guide groove. A surface reception type photodiode, which is placed in a position for receiving light deflected by the mirror, is mounted above the tapered face. By providing a positioning marker for a light receiving element on the optical package substrate, it becomes particularly easy to mount the surface reception type photodiode through passive alignment.

Optical package substrate and optical device

Micro-discharge machining is employed to obtain a die, and an optical package substrate is produced by press formation using such a die. An optical fiber, an optical waveguide, a lens, an isolator, an optical filter and a light receiving/emitting element are mounted by passive alignment.

Optical package substrate, optical device, optical module, and method for molding optical package substrate

A method of manufacturing a microlens array comprising forming microlenses by dropping or injecting to a plurality of through holes formed on a substrate a liquefied lens material so as to dispose the lens material at each of the through holes, the lens material being curable and has a predetermined transmittivity and a predetermined viscosity.

Method of manufacturing microlens array and microlens array

An optical signal transmission system equipped with a magneto-optical modulator is provided. The magneto-optical modulator works to modulate an optical beam emitted from a light source and consists of a polarizer, a magneto-optical element, an analyzer, a dc field generator, a high-frequency field generator, and an impedance adjuster. The dc field generator works to apply a dc bias field to the magneto-optical element. The high-frequency generator is responsive to the high-frequency signal from said high-frequency signal generator to apply a high-frequency field to the magneto-optical element. The impedance adjuster works to adjust impedance of the high-frequency field generator for establishing effective transmission of the high-frequency signal to the high-frequency field generator, thereby increasing a modulation range up to frequencies higher than an upper limit of typical magneto-optical modulators. The application of the dc bias field and use of the impedance adjuster realizes the magneto-optical modulator which is useful up to a ferromagnetic resonance frequency.

Optical signal transmission system and magneto-optical modulator designed to establish modulation over wide range for use in the same

An optical magnetic field sensor probe for detecting a magnetic field to be measured as an output light intensity, by disposing a polarizer, a magneto-optical device, and an analyzer mutually different in the transmission and polarization direction with respect to said polarizer, along the running direction of light, has an input optical fiber for feeding into to said polarizer through a first lens, and an output optical fiber for emitting an output light from said analyzer through a second lens, wherein said input optical fiber, said first lens, said magneto-optical device, said second lens and said output optical fiber are composed in a confocal optical system, and said first lens and said second lens are drum lenses.

Optical magnetic field sensor probe

Magneto-optical element

Magneto-optical element and optical magnetic field sensor

A second-order nonlinear optical material comprises a glass body poled from a first direction and a second direction, which differ from each other, so that the glass body exhibits little birefringence relative to a beam being propagated in a third direction substantially vertical to said first direction and said second direction, respectively, wherein said glass body comprises a major proportion of SiO,and a minor proportion of germanium. A method for making the material, and optical modulator devices comprising the material are also described.

Method for making a second-order nonlinear optical material, the material obtained by the method, and an optical modulation device comprising the material

Optical magnetic field sensor probe having drum lenses

An optical fiber modulator comprises an optical fiber, a substrate having a groove pattern in which the optical fiber is fixed, and a modulation unit including a polarizer, an electrooptic element, and an analyzer aligned in a light path of the optical fiber in this order, wherein the electrooptic element is made of a poled portion of the optical fiber, and when the electrooptic element is in an electric field-free condition, an absolute value, .delta., of a phase difference of a beam passed through the electrooptic element is within the following range

Optical fiber modulator having an optical fiber having a poled portion

A magneto-optical element is of a rare-earth iron garnet crystal expressed at least by formula 1, and a element in whose composition range the value of X is set at 0.8.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.1.3; that of Y at 0.2.ltoreq.Y.ltoreq.0.4; that of Z at 0.1.ltoreq.Z.ltoreq.0.9; and that of W at 0.ltoreq.W.ltoreq.0.3; and R element is made at least one or more kinds of rare-earth elements. An optical magnetic field sensor is composed in such a manner that light diffracted by magnetic domain structure of rare-earth iron garnet crystal can be detected up to a higher-order light by optical fiber on light output side through optical system arrangement. A magnetic field measuring equipment composed of the optical magnetic field sensor has a linearity error of .+-.1.0% or less within a magnetic field range 5.0 Oe to 200 Oe, and allows a measuring accuracy higher than with prior art equipment.

A magneto-optical element comprises a film of a Bi-substituted rare earth iron garnet selected from garnets of the following chemical formulas

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Nobuki Itoh