Abstract:
An apparatus and methods for manipulating light using nanoscale cometal structures are disclosed. A nanoscale optics apparatus for manipulating light includes a plurality of nanoscale cometal structures each comprising a dielectric material located between a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor. A method of fabricating a nanoscale optics apparatus for manipulating light includes preparing a plurality of nanoscale planar structures; coating a plurality of planar surfaces of the plurality of planar structures with a dielectric while leaving space between the plurality of planar surfaces; and coating the dielectric with an outer electrical conductor layer, wherein a portion of the outer electrical conductor layer is located between the planar structures to form coplanar structures.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical element capable of increasing a change amount of a photonic band gap. SOLUTION: A photonic crystal structure (4, 5) has a structure wherein a second medium whose refractive index is changed by an external field is periodically distributed in a first medium whose refractive index is changed by an external field. The external fields are applied to the photonic crystal structure by external field applying means (2, 9). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PURPOSE:To prevent the degradation in a titled element and improve its life by sealing the entire part of the element with a polyparaxylene film in the titled element provided with transparent electrodes via insulation layers on both surfaces of a plate-like body having optical transimission effect and electrooptical effect. CONSTITUTION:An insulation layer 2 consisting of a thin film of a high polymer such as polyparaxylene layer or the like is formed on at least one surface of a plate- like body 1 consisting of material having both optical transmission effect and electrooptical effect such as bismuth silicon oxide, bismuth germanium oxide or the like, after which the transparent electrodes 3 consisting of In2O3 or the like are formed on both surfaces and lead wires 13 are attached. Thence, the entire part is overcoated with a polyparaxylene film 14, whereby the intended image converting element is obtained. The resultant element is optically uniform, and does not show any degradation in characteristics at all after repetition of more than 10 times of operations for writing, reading and erasing of images.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wave length conversion method capable of enhancing the wave length conversion efficiency during wave length conversion of laser beam with a wave length conversion element of the lithium tetra-borate single crystal. SOLUTION: When the laser beam emitted from the laser oscillator 1 is made incident on the wave length conversion element 2 of lithium tetra-borate single crystal for generating higher harmonics, as for the incident beam on the wavelength conversion element 2, a laser beam is used, wherein the laser beam is tightly converged to set the beam size in the phase matching direction be less than or equal to the product of crystal length and walk off angle. Thereby, the separation between the incident beam and outgoing beam in the crystal becomes larger by the walk off effect, while evading the effect of heat generation of two photon absorption etc. The wavelength conversion efficiency increasing proportional to the length of the crystal can be obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the wave length conversion efficiency when generating higher harmonics by making the laser beam incident on the lithium tetra-borate single crystal wave length conversion element. SOLUTION: Before the laser beam is emitted from the laser oscillator 1 and incident on the wave conversion element 2, the beam size of X-axis direction is enlarged and the Y-axis direction is reduced and the cross section of the laser beam is formed into oval shape of ellipticity ≥3; thereby the wave conversion efficiency is improved than the case that the cross section of the laser beam is a circular shape. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PURPOSE:To vary the wavelength of the light which should be divided, by forming an optical waveguide on a substrate with a material which can vary reversibly its refractive index and then writing a diffraction grating by a double luminous flux interference method or an optical beam scanning method. CONSTITUTION:An otical waveguide 2 using single crystals of BSO and BGO is formed on a substrate 1. Transparent electrodes 3 and 3 are formed by vapor deposition on both end surfaces of the substrate 1 and the waveguide 2 respectively. Then the DC voltage is impressed to the electrodes 3 and 3 from a power supply 4 via a switch 5. Both BSO and BGO show an electro-optical effect only when a DC field exists and produces the photosensitivity. The diameter is enlarged for two lumnous fluxes given from a laser, and these luminous fluxes are irradiated to the waveguide 2 of an electro-optical material with equal incident angle phi. An interference is given to the two luminous fluxes when an electric field exists to generate a change of refractive index in response to the interference fringes. The change of the refracive index corresponds to the interference fringes. When the space between gratings is set as (d), only lambda1 is diffracted for mlambda1=2nd cosQ (Q: incident angle of waveguide light 8 and m: number of order).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical switch which consumes low power, switches with high speed, and is highly practical and low-loss by making the optical switch be a self-hold type. SOLUTION: The optical switch comprises a quartz substrate 101, first and second input waveguides 102a, 102b, a first directional coupler 103, first and second arm waveguides 104a, 104b of a Mach-Zehnder interference circuit, a second directional coupler 105, first and second output waveguides 106a, 106b, and a phase change material portion 100. A control light (for transition from an amorphous state to a crystal state) pulse (with a pulse width 20 ns, pulse intensity 5 mW) with 0.78 micron wavelength is made to irradiate the phase change material portion. A phase change material portion 109 is subjected to a phase change to a crystalline state with control light pulse irradiation, and the optical switch is subjected to transition to a bar state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI