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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:
Sep. 28, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385122 ; 359328 ;
Abstract
An optical device having a periodic inverted domain construction is used for second harmonic generating devices or the like. The optical device comprises a ferroelectric crystal substrate which is provided in this surface with a periodic inverted domain structure consisting of a plurality of parallel inverted domain regions arranged at intervals. The thickness t and width w of the inverted domain regions and the thickness T of the ferroelectric crystal substrate meet the criteria expressed by: t/w.gtoreq.1 and 0.1<t/T.ltoreq.1.