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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Masaru Takechi, Yokohama, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
An optical receiver comprises a package provided with an input window; a polarization-maintaining optical fiber fixable to the input window; a polarization beam splitter, disposed on the package, for inputting light outputted from the polarization-maintaining optical fiber and outputting first output light and second output light having respective polarization directions different from each other; a beam splitter, disposed on the package, for splitting the first output light; a first light-receiving element, optically coupled to the beam splitter, having two light-receiving parts corresponding to two kinds of the output light split by the beam splitter; and a second light-receiving element, disposed on the package, for receiving the second output light.