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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1995
Atsushi Onoe, Tsurugashima, JP;
Satoshi Miyaguchi, Tsurugashima, JP;
Yoshiaki Watanabe, Tsurugashima, JP;
Pioneer Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wavelength converting element comprises; an X or Y-out substrate made of lithium tantalate crystal or lithium niobate crystal having a major surface containing a Z-axis of the crystal; polarization inversion layers formed the major surface each extending in the Z-axis and treated by applying an electric field of direct current to the substrate wherein the electric field of direct current contains a field component toward an inverse direction of the Z-axis intersecting at an angle of .theta. in a range of 0.degree.<.theta.<90.degree. with respect to the Z-axis during an annealing of the substrate; and an optical waveguide intersecting with the polarization inversion layers formed and treated on the major surface of the substrate, thereby achieving deep polarization inversion layers with a fine pitch and width on a Y or X-cut surface of the crystal substrate to satisfy a high QPM condition to produce a wavelength converting element capable of direct coupling with a semiconductor laser and having a high optical converting efficiency.