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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2008
Tomoaki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical modulator is provided with a stripe-shaped optical waveguide, which has an upper clad layer, a lower clad layer formed between the upper clad layer and a substrate, and an undoped core layer which is arranged between the upper clad layer and the lower clad layer and has a complex refractive index that changes corresponding to the intensity of an applied electric field, to a signal light propagating inside. On both sides of the stripe-shaped optical waveguide, conductor walls are configured by arranging a pair of parallel blocking flat boards with an insulating wall in between. Thus, the semiconductor optical modulator having a high optical modulation efficiency is provided.