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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; G01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350377 ; 350390 ; 356350 ;
Abstract
A Faraday rotator has a non-magnetic garnet substrate with a ferrimagnetic garnet film epitaxially grown on the substrate. A magnet induces a magnetic field in the film for rotating the plane of polarization of a light-beam which strikes an end surface of the film at a predetermined angle. The substrate and film are composed of a material wherein the difference (.DELTA. a=a.sub.s -a.sub.f) between the lattice constant a.sub.s of the substrate and the lattice constant a.sub.f of the film satisfies .vertline..DELTA.a.vertline..ltoreq. 0.001A (angstrom).