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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2007
Yuki Kondo, Yokohama, JP;
Motoshi Ono, Yokohama, JP;
Naoki Sugimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Asahi Glass Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a glass optical waveguide having a core containing at least one oxide selected from the group of glass-constituting oxides consisting of BiO, SbO, PbO, SnOand TeO, large transmission loss of light which occurs when the cross-sectional shape of the core is rectangle, is reduced, and wherein the glass optical waveguide contains at least total 35% in mass % of at least one type of the above glass-constituting oxides, wherein the cross-sectional shape of the core is trapezoidal, among two parallel sides of the trapezoid, a long side is in a substrate side and among four sides constituting the trapezoid, angles of two oblique sides to the long side are each within a range of from 60 to 80°.