The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Thk Co., Ltd.

Shiro Nakamura

Takeo Shimizu

Hisaharu Yanagawa

Isao Ohyama

Hiroshi Kawashima

Takeshi Nakajima

Hideki Sunaga

Takashi Shigematsu

Kanji Tanaka

Ken Ueki

Toshihiko Ohta

Eiji Takahashi

Kazutaka Nara

Kaoru Hoshide

Tetsuhiro Nishide

Tomohiro Watanabe

Kazunori Yamada

Hideyuki Iwata

Hiroyuki Koshi

Akihiro Teramachi

Kazunori Watanabe

Izumi Sankawa

Shinichi Furukawa

Jun Ishiguro

Narihito Sano

Atsushi Umeda

Takeshi Oba

Hiroshi Raijo

Katsuhiro Machida

Yoshinori Asayama

Nobutaka Fuke

Isao Oyama

Kazuya Fukasawa

Hiroyuki Kamioka

Satoshi Kuramochi

Atsushi Takada

Masami Kato

Passenger car

The present invention provides a variable optical dispersion compensating module comprised of (a) an optical dispersion compensating unit having an input optical switch, an optical dispersion compensating fiber, connected to the optical switch, having a predetermined optical dispersion amount, a bypass path for bypassing the optical dispersion compensating fiber, and an output optical switch connected to the optical dispersion compensating fiber and the bypass path, (b) an optical dispersion compensating circuit with at least one of the unit connected in series, and (c) an optical attenuator provided, in the direction of an optical path, after the input optical switch or before the output optical switch of the optical dispersion compensating circuit.

Variable optical dispersion compensating module

Disclosed is a canned pump comprising a housing, a rotor contained in the housing, a circuit substrate supported on the housing, semi-conductor means for power control attached to the circuit substrate, an end cover attached the housing to cover the circuit substrate, an a heat sink having heat radiating means for cooling the semi-conductor means for power control. The semi-conductor means for power control is mounted on a surface of the circuit substrate facing to the end cover. The heat sink attached to the circuit substrate to cover the semi-conductor means for power control.

Canned pump

A brushless motor for a blower fan unit is comprised of a heat sink which has a heat radiating portion and a pair of supporting legs extending from both opposite sides of the heat radiating portion. A free end portion of each supporting leg is in contact with an electric circuit board. A pressing member has a pressing portion, a pair of positioning portions perpendicularly extending from opposite end portions of the pressing portion, and a pair of connecting portions projecting from the pair of positioning portions respectively. The connecting portions are engaged with supporting legs of the heat sink respectively. The pressing portion presses switching devices to the heat sink. The positioning portions are inserted into the through-holes of the electric circuit board respectively.

Brushless motor

The present invention provides a planar lightwave circuit platform and its method for manufacturing by which the characteristics of the planar lightwave circuit become stable. In a planar lightwave circuit platform comprising quartz-based lower cladding layer ( ), height adjusting layer ( ), core layer ( ), and upper cladding layer ( ) formed in order on substrate ( ), wherein the glass softening temperature of the height adjusting layer ( ) is set to be higher than the glass softening temperatures and the temperatures for transparent-vitrification of the core layer ( ) and upper cladding layer ( ).

Planar lightwave circuit platform and method for manufacturing the same

A hybrid optical waveguide circuit chip capable of predicting optical characteristics of a first optical waveguide circuit connected to optical elements where it is difficult to measure the optical characteristics. In the chip, a second optical waveguide circuit is disposed adjacent to the first optical waveguide circuit. One end face of the second optical waveguide circuit is terminated at one chip end face A of the chips, and at least one of the optical waveguide end faces at the other side of the second optical waveguide circuit is terminated at the other chip end face B of the chip, wherein the optical characteristics of the second optical waveguide circuit are measured, and the measured values are predicted as substantial optical characteristics of the first optical waveguide.

Hybrid optical waveguide circuit chip, and method for predicting the characteristics thereof

An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer including an arrayed waveguide grating having a plurality of waveguides and formed at its both end with an input-side slab waveguide and an output-side slab waveguide. A reference input waveguide and correction input waveguides are provided on the input end face of the input-side slab waveguide and a plurality of output waveguides are connected to the output end face of the output-side slab waveguide. The correction input waveguide has an output end face thereof placed apart by a distance from the input end face of the input-side slab waveguide in the lengthwise direction of the slab waveguide and has an acute angle to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of this waveguide, thus permitting an optical signal to be input at a position apart from a light-incident position for the reference input waveguide by a distance shorter than a waveguide disposition interval, thereby optimally correcting a deviation of the center wavelength of the optical signal.

Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer

An arrayed waveguide grating type optical multiplexer/demultiplexer including an arrayed waveguide grating having a plurality of channel waveguides. Concave end faces of input-side and output-side slab waveguides are connected to opposite ends of the diffraction grating. At least one input waveguide and at least one output waveguide are connected to the other concave end faces of the input-side and output-side slab waveguides, respectively. The focal length of the output-side slab waveguide end face is longer than the focal length of the input-side slab waveguide end face. The optical multiplexer/demultiplexer has a sufficiently flat wavelength-dependent spectrum response in passing channel spacings, and helps construct an optical wavelength multiple communication system having a good signal-to-noise ratio.

Arrayed waveguide grating type optical multiplexer/demultiplexer

An optical waveguide component includes at least one main waveguide through which signal light and regenerating light propagate and a branch waveguide branching from the main waveguide, which are formed on the same substrate; a filter element disposed at a branch portion of these waveguides; and a plurality of reflecting elements having two reflecting faces, which are arranged in the extending direction of the branch waveguide. In the optical waveguide component, one reflecting face of the two reflecting faces is a face for reflecting the regenerating light to the filter element, and the other face is a face for reflecting the regenerating light to the direction deviating from the light axis direction of the branch waveguide, or the intervals between the reflecting elements are different from each other. This optical waveguide component enables the time-series signal processing of regenerating light to be performed accurately.

Optical waveguide component and a light signal processing method using

A composite optical device has a first and second chips. The first chip has a substrate on which M pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting communication light, N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting monitoring light and M-input/N-output star couplers are formed in an integrated form, and the second chip has a substrate on which N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting communication light, N pieces of optical waveguides for transmitting monitoring light and N pieces of 2-input/2-output star couplers are formed in an integrated form. A first and second blocks holding optical fibers are joined respectively to the first and second chips. When the composite optical device in which the first and second blocks and the first and second chips are joined is incorporated into the optical communication system, a passive double star system is constructed. By using an MT connector instead of the first block and the first chip, a single star system can be rapidly constructed.

Composite optical device

Multifiber connector, a method of manufacturing the same, and a

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an optical component, having the steps of forming a first position aligning pattern on a surface of a substrate, forming a second position aligning recess-projection pattern conforming with the first position aligning pattern and a third position aligning recess-projection pattern having a predetermined positional relationship with the second position aligning recess-projection pattern, and applying a predetermined processing with the third position aligning recess-projection pattern used as a reference under a predetermined positional relationship with the first position aligning pattern.

Method of positioning elements of an optical integrated circuit

An optical waveguide component which has end faces to be connected with optical fiber connectors by means of guide pins, comprises an optical waveguide component body having an optical waveguide core portion, and a resin mold cladding portion covering all the faces of the optical waveguide component body except for the end faces of the optical waveguide component body. Each end face of the resin mold portion has guide pin holes which were formed with the optical waveguide core portion being used as a positioning reference. Since the guide pin holes for connection with the optical fiber connectors are formed in the resin mold portion which, preferably has some elasticity and which covers the optical waveguide component body, the guide pin holes and a substrate are not broken even if subjected to a load after connection.

Optical waveguide component with a molded resin portion having

An optical line monitoring method and an apparatus for locating a failure point in an optical communication system, wherein a plurality of types of inspection light rays having wavelengths which are determined by cut-off wavelengths, which differ from each other, of short-wavelength pass filters installed at a plurality of branched ports of an optical coupler/splitter of the communication system are sent from a light source having variable wavelengths into one or more corresponding optical fiber lines of the system in sequence via an optical directional coupler and the optical coupler/splitter. Each time reflected light, corresponding to the inspection light, from one or more optical fiber lines is received, an output representing the intensity level of the reflected light is sent from a light receiver to an arithmetic circuit and stored in the arithmetic circuit. The arithmetic circuit calculates the reflected light intensity levels which correspond to the individual optical fiber lines according to the light receiver outputs which individually correspond to inspection light rays, whereby the position of the failure in the optical fiber line incurring the failure is identified.

Optical line monitoring method and an apparatus permitting simultaneous

A method of connecting an optical fiber to a planar optical waveguide is provided in which an end face of a waveguide chip in which planar optical waveguides are formed is abutted against an end face of a fiber aligning jig on which optical fibers are arranged, to thereby connect the optical fiber to the corresponding planar optical waveguide. At least one marker is formed in each of the waveguide chip and the fiber aligning jig, and also at least one pin guide groove is formed in each of the waveguide chip and the fiber aligning jig, using the marker as a reference mark. The markers of the waveguide chip and the fiber aligning jig are aligned with each other along optical axes of the planar optical waveguides when the waveguide chip and the fiber aligning jig are abutted against each other. Further, fiber guide grooves are formed in the fiber aligning jig, using the marker as a reference mark. The waveguide chip and the fiber aligning jig are abutted against each other, and the planar optical waveguide and the optical fiber are aligned with each other by means of a common guide pin laid along the corresponding pin guide grooves.

Method of connecting an optical fiber to an optical waveguide

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Shiro Nakamura