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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:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuhito Tajima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356345 ; 385 12 ;
Abstract
The Mach-Zehnder type all-optical device for controlling a signal light with a control light, includes two arms for constituting a Mach-Zehnder configuration, each of the arms being constituted at least partially of material having third order optical nonlinearity, and an introducer of a control light to a portion of each of the arms revealing the optical nonlinearity.