Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ouichi Kubota

Takeo Tsukamoto

Toshihiko Ouchi

Masao Majima

Jun Nitta

Seiji Mishima

There is provided a new electron beam apparatus which improves the instability of an electron emission characteristic and provides a high efficient electron emission characteristic. The electron beam apparatus includes: an insulating member having a recess on its surface; a cathode having a protruding portion extending over the outer surface of the insulating member and the inner surface of the recess; a gate positioned at the outer surface of the insulating member in opposition to the protruding portion; and an anode positioned in opposition to the protruding portion through the gate.

Electron beam apparatus and image display apparatus using the same

In an optical communication system in which a plurality of optical nodes are connected via an optical transmission path and communication is performed by multiplexing a plurality of channels in the optical transmission path, transmission is performed by a transmitting optical node using a wavelength belonging to a wavelength group constituting a single channel. Each of the plurality of channels is constituted by a wavelength group consisting of a plurality of wavelengths separated from each other by a predetermined first wavelength interval. Reception is performed by a receiving optical node which detects a light transmitted in the optical transmission path and which has a plurality of light detectivity peaks separated by intervals corresponding to a natural number multiple of the predetermined first wavelength interval so that the light detectivity peaks match with the wavelengths constituting the wavelength group of a required channel.

Optical communication method for performing communication using a

In a light source apparatus, the polarization mode of oscillation light from a semiconductor laser is switchable between two different polarization modes when a modulation current is injected into a portion of a light waveguide of the semiconductor laser. Light in one polarization mode and light in the other polarization mode are separately obtained from the oscillation light from the semiconductor laser. At least the light in one of the two different polarization modes is converted to an electric signal. Current injected into the semiconductor laser is controlled based on the electric signal such that a modulation state of light from the semiconductor laser is stabilized. The light in the other polarization mode, or light in one polarization mode emitted from the other emission side of the semiconductor laser may be used for optical transmission.

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Atsugi, Japan

Ouichi Kubota