摘要:
A polarization controlling apparatus is disclosed, which enhances the degree of freedom in apparatus design.The polarization controlling apparatus includes a permanent magnet itself or a permanent magnet to which a part capable of being magnetized is applied, an electromagnet capable of changing the magnitude of a magnetic field to be generated thereby, and a Faraday rotation effect element, disposed at a position at which an interaction magnetic field produced by an interaction between a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet and a magnetic field generated by the electromagnet acts, for producing a Faraday rotation effect on inputted light by means of the interaction magnetic field. The magnitude of the interaction magnetic field in the Faraday rotation effect element is varied by a magnetic field component generated by the electromagnet to vary the amount of the Faraday rotation effect to be had on the inputted light.
摘要:
A polarization controlling apparatus includes a permanent magnet itself or a permanent magnet to which a part capable of being magnetized is applied, an electromagnet capable of changing the magnitude of a magnetic field to be generated thereby, and a Faraday rotation effect element. The Faraday rotation effect element is disposed at a position at which an interaction magnetic field acts on the Faraday rotation effect element. The interaction magnetic field is produced by an interaction between a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet and a magnetic field generated by the electromagnet. The Faraday rotation effect element thereby produces a Faraday rotation effect on inputted light. The magnitude of the interaction magnetic field in the Faraday rotation effect element is varied by a magnetic field component generated by the electromagnet to vary the amount of the Faraday rotation effect to be had on the inputted light.
摘要:
A delay interferometer includes first and second optical paths into which incident signal light is split, a first converter including one or more conversion parts to convert the signal light on the first optical path into circularly polarized light and to convert the circularly polarized light into linearly polarized signal light, a phase adjuster to shift an optical phase of the circularly polarized light through a magneto-optic effect, and a second converter to convert a polarization state of the signal light on the second optical path into substantially the same polarization state as a polarization state of the linearly polarized signal light.
摘要:
The optical switch is capable of supervising the performance of optical switching in standby channels, and includes: a collimator unit; an optical splitter; a light-gathering unit; and a rotatable mirror. The optical switch further includes: a mirror angle controlling unit which controls a reflection face angle of the rotatable mirror for each wavelength to switch ON/OFF of the light beam coupling to the optical output port for each wavelength reflected, and determines an optical output port position outputting light beams of the reflected wavelengths; and a monitor unit, installed on a return path of a light beam, which monitors a light beam whose optical coupling is made OFF.
摘要:
A housing 20 is equipped for supporting, from a side, a platform of a wavelength selection device comprising an input/output port 10, a collimator 11, an expanding optical system 12, a spectroscopic element, a collecting optical system 14 and a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) mirror array 15. Because the above noted optical member is supported from the side only, influences of a thermal expansion is limited to the height direction of the optical member and the optical axis direction. By these aspects, the influence of thermal expansion is limited to a two-dimensional from a common three-dimensional, thereby enabling a design of a countermeasure to an influence of a thermal expansion. Also, the support from the side does not create a dead space thereby making the wavelength selection device compact.
摘要:
A variable optical filter comprises a first polarizer, a first phase difference element operable to generate a phase difference, a variable Faraday rotator operable to impart a variable Faraday rotation, a second phase difference element operable to generate a phase difference, and a second polarizer, wherein said polarizers, said variable Faraday rotator, and said phase difference elements are arranged in the mentioned order along the optical axis, and wherein when the angles formed by the optic axes of said first and second phase difference elements and the transmitted polarization azimuth of the first polarizer are assumed respectively to be φ1 and φ2, these φ1 and φ2 are set to different angles.
摘要:
An object of the invention is to provide a small size Faraday rotator which is easy to produce and enables reliable reduction of temperature dependence of the Faraday rotation angle, by defining the crystal orientation and arrangement order of each Faraday element when three or more Faraday elements are used. For this purpose, a Faraday rotator of the present invention comprises: a Faraday element section being composed of a plurality of Faraday elements, a permanent magnet for applying a magnetic field to each Faraday element in a parallel direction to an optical axis direction, and an electromagnet for applying a variable magnetic field in a perpendicular direction to the optical axis direction, wherein each Faraday element is arranged such that the crystal orientation of each is perpendicular to a light beam direction, and crystal orientations of adjacent Faraday elements are opposed to each other.
摘要:
An &agr;-glucosidase inhibitor is described. It is comprised of an extract of Touchi selected from the group consisting of an extract of Touchi extracted with alcohol, an extract of Touchi extracted with a mixture of water and alcohol in a water to alcohol ratio of 1:5 to 5:1, and an extract of Touchi extracted with water at 100° C. to 140° C. The components in the extract which have a molecular weight of at least 3000 as determined by means of gel filtration or membrane filtration are at most 20% by weight and wherein the extract inhibits &agr;-glucosidase at least 90.4%.
摘要:
An optical device which can be used as a Faraday rotator which can provide an arbitrary Faraday rotation angle in accordance with a positional condition. The optical device includes first and second ports, magneto-optical crystal, and a unit for applying a magnetic field to the magneto-optical crystal. The first port is positioned in a first region while the second port is positioned in a second region. The first and second ports are optically coupled by a light beam. The magneto-optical crystal is provided such that the light beam may pass therethrough. The unit for applying applies a magnetic field to the magneto-optical crystal so that magnetization of the magneto-optical crystal may have a given distribution in a plane substantially perpendicular to the light beam. Since the magnetization of the magneto-optical crystal has the given distribution, whether the first port is at a certain position or at another position, the Faraday rotation angle provided to the light beam is different in accordance with the distribution. Accordingly, an arbitrary Faraday rotation angle can be provided in accordance with a positional condition.
摘要:
An optical device for wavelength monitoring and wavelength control. The optical device has an optical element having a first surface and a second surface not parallel to each other. The optical element separates a light beam supplied to the first surface into a first beam reflected on the first surface, a second beam passed through the first surface, reflected on the second surface, and passed through the first surface again, and a third beam passed through the first surface and the second surface in this order. An optical filter is provided so as to transmit the first and second beams. The optical filter has wavelength characteristics different according to an incidence angle. The first and second beams passed through the optical filter are supplied to first and second photodetectors, respectively. On the basis of such a difference in wavelength characteristic, the wavelength of the light beam can be monitored according to outputs from the first and second photodetectors.