Fujitsu Corporation

Yoshihiko Kaitoh

Hideyuki Miyata

Tadao Nakazawa

Masaharu Doi

Takehito Tanaka

Tetsuo Ishizaka

The present invention aims at providing a connecting method capable of suppressing an influence of stray light for a plurality of optical function devices formed on the same substrate, and an optical apparatus applied with the control method. To this end, in the connecting method of optical function devices according to the present invention, the plurality of optical function devices formed on the same substrate are cascade connected so that both ends of an optical path passing through the plurality of optical function devices are positioned on the same end face of the substrate. According to such a connecting method, it becomes possible to effectively suppress a leakage of stray light from an optical input side to an optical output side.

Connecting method of optical function devices, and optical apparatus

The present invention aims at providing a connecting method of optical devices capable of suppressing a periodic wavelength dependence loss and the like, due to the inter-polarization-mode interference caused when connecting a plurality of optical devices by using an optical path having a polarization-preserving characteristic, and an optical apparatus applied with the connecting method. To this end, the connecting method according to the present invention, is to connect a plurality of optical devices to one another by using an optical path of polarization-preserving type having optical characteristics in which a light is propagated along two different polarization axes for substantially equal distances. Thus, even if the polarization direction of the light input/output to/from the respective optical devices is not completely coincident with the direction of the polarization axis of the optical path, it is possible to offset the periodic wavelength dependence loss and the like caused by the inter-polarization-mode interference in the optical path, to be suppressed.

Connecting method of optical devices, and optical apparatus

The optical module has an element mounted thereupon for shifting an optical phase by the electro-optic effect, and includes an element for shifting an optical phase by an electro-optic effect having a signal electrode and a ground electrode formed thereupon; a connector for supplying a control signal of a microwave region to the signal electrode of the element, having a center conductor and an outer conductor; and a repeating board formed on a dielectric wafer having a coplanar line connecting the signal electrode and the ground electrode with the center conductor and the outer conductor of the connector respectively on the dielectric wafer, wherein an air layer is formed on the lower portion of the repeating board on which the center conductor of the connector is disposed.

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Sapporo, Japan

Yoshihiko Kaitoh