Abstract: An antireflection structure includes an antireflection film provided on a front surface of a substrate. The antireflection film has a plurality of holes that are spatially and periodically arranged and pass through front and back surfaces of the antireflection film. A thickness and a relative dielectric constant of the antireflection film are set according to a relative dielectric constant and a thickness of the substrate and an incident angle ? of an electromagnetic wave. The thickness and the relative dielectric constant of the antireflection film are set for an electromagnetic wave incident at the angle ? so that, for example, an electromagnetic wave reflected by the antireflection film provided on the front surface of the substrate and an electromagnetic wave reflected by a back surface of the substrate deviate from each other by a half wavelength and cancel each other.

Abstract: A light guide body for optical path and optical axis adjustment, the light guide body includes a silicon single crystal having an extinction ratio of 30 dB or more. The light guide body is a light guide body having one side surface alone joined and fixed to a base. An optical module including the light guide body installed at an installation angle adjusted for optical path and optical axis adjustment between components. An optical path and optical axis adjustment method including adjusting an installation angle of the light guide body to perform the optical path and optical axis adjustment between components. It is possible to provide the light guide body which does not adversely affect polarization characteristics and can easily perform the optical path and optical axis adjustment. It is possible to provide optical module and the optical path and optical axis adjustment method using such a light guide body.

Abstract: A Faraday rotator and an optical isolator having a high transmittance and a high Verdet constant are provided. The optical isolator includes at least a Faraday rotator that rotates a polarization plane of incident light in a non-reciprocal manner, a polarizer disposed on a light incident side of the Faraday rotator, and an analyzer disposed on a light exit side of the Faraday rotator. The Faraday rotator is made of an oxide containing ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3), and is manufactured by a ceramic manufacturing process, wherein the oxide is allowed to contain an oxide of a metal other than ytterbium, and the proportion of ytterbium in all metal atoms in the oxide is 80% or more.

Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.

Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which can maximize the efficiency of rectification in a power-receiving electronic device irrespective of the distance therebetween. The transmitter transmits electric power to the electronic device through use of a microwave. The electronic device receives the microwave, converts the microwave to DC power, and uses the DC power as operation power.

Abstract: The present invention is a polarization independent optical isolator including two polarizing separation members each configured to separate polarization components of a transmitted light, an absorptive polarizer arranged on optical paths of separated transmitted lights and corresponding to a plane of polarization of each separated transmitted light, and a Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator is arranged downstream of the absorptive polarizer in a forward direction. As a result, there can be provided a polarization independent optical isolator that requires no stray light processing of separated optical feedback and shows high isolation.

Abstract: A small, low-cost 1.5-stage optical isolator has, in a forward direction, incoming light and outgoing light polarization directions that are parallel. The isolator includes a first Faraday rotator, a first polarizer, a second Faraday rotator and a second polarizer arranged in order on a light transmission path, and a magnet arranged so as to apply a same-direction magnetic field to the first Faraday rotator and the second Faraday rotator. Faraday rotation in the first Faraday rotator and Faraday rotation in the second Faraday rotator occur in opposite directions.

Abstract: A tumor treatment method for treating a tumor in a subject, the method includes: a step I of administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or a plurality of antibody-IR 700 molecules to the subject, in which the antibody specifically binds to a cell surface protein of the tumor; a step II of inserting an optical probe into the subject; a step III of applying light having a wavelength in a range from 660 nm to 740 nm from the optical probe, to supply energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to at least a part of the tumor; a step IV of waiting for a time until an immune response is elicited in the tumor; a step V of inserting an energy device into the subject; and a step VI of resecting tissues of the subject including the tumor using the energy device.

Abstract: Provided are a practical method for manufacturing TAG single crystal. The method of manufacturing a garnet type crystal brings a raw material solution into contact with a substrate formed of a Y3Al5O12 crystal or a Dy3Al5O12 crystal and performs liquid phase epitaxial growth. The garnet type crystal is represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy) Al5O12 (R is one or more elements selected from Y or a lanthanoid (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu), 0?x, and 0?y)).

Abstract: Provided are a Faraday rotator having a high light transmittance and a high Verdet constant and an optical isolator using the same. The Faraday rotator of the present invention contains a garnet type crystal represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy)Al5O12 (R represents one or more elements selected from Y, Er, Yb, or Lu, 0<x, and 0?y). It is preferable that the Faraday rotator contains a garnet type crystal represented by (Tb3-x-yRxBiy)Al5O12 (R is one or more elements selected from Y or a lanthanoid (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu), 0?x, and 0<y)).

Abstract: The present invention comprises: a step of applying a liquid composition for forming a PZT ferroelectric film; a step of drying the film applied with the liquid composition; a step of irradiating UV rays onto the dried film at a temperature of 150 to 200° C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere; and after the application step, the drying step, and the UV irradiation step once, or more times, a step of firing for crystallizing a precursor film of the UV-irradiated ferroelectric film by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.5° C./second or higher in an oxygen-containing atmosphere or by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.2° C./second or higher in a non-oxygen containing atmosphere, followed by keeping the temperature at 400 to 500° C. An amount of liquid composition is set such that thickness of the ferroelectric film be 150 nm or more for each application and ozone is supplied during UV irradiation.

Abstract: An optical isolator includes: an optical isolator chip in which a first polarizer, a Faraday rotator made of a ferromagnet, and a second polarizer are bonded and fixed in this order; and a magnet for applying a magnetic field to the optical isolator chip. A light-entering end surface or a light-exiting end surface of the optical isolator chip is bonded and fixed to a component. On an optical axis of the optical isolator, a center of a magnetic flux formed by the magnet is positioned closer to the end surface side bonded and fixed to the component than a central position of the Faraday rotator on the optical axis. The optical isolator has high bonding reliability to the component.

Abstract: An ejection volume of a liquid can more finely be adjusted without lowering the ejection speed. The liquid jet head includes a plurality of nozzles adapted to jet the liquid, a piezoelectric actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the nozzles and filled with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of each of the pressure chambers, and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid with which the pressure chamber is filled. The control section generates a drive waveform including a plurality of the pulse signals adapted to expand the capacity of the pressure chamber, and sets a crest value of either of the pulse signals other than the pulse signal applied last to a different value from a crest value of another of the pulse signals in the drive waveform.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes: a light source apparatus configured to emit excitation light for exciting a fluorescent medical agent and illuminating light; an image sensor configured to pick up an image of each of fluorescence emitted in response to application of the excitation light to an object present inside a body cavity of a subject to which the fluorescent medical agent is administered and reflected light emitted in response to application of the illuminating light to the object; and a mixed image generating circuit configured to generate an observation image in which a first image that is an image obtained by performing image pickup of the reflected light by the image sensor, and a second image that is an image indicating a site of emission of the fluorescence in the object are mixed in a set of pixel arrays that do not overlap each other and each have periodicity.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a power receiving portion that contactlessly receives electric power from a power transmitting portion provided outside the vehicle and includes a shield member that is arranged around the power receiving portion in the same plane as a plane in which the power receiving portion is arranged, wherein the shield member includes a first shield region having a high shielding function and a second shield region having a shielding function lower than that of the first shield region at a position around the power receiving portion.

Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical isolator module, including: a plurality of optical devices, each comprising a Faraday rotator and being configured to have an optical isolator function upon application of a magnetic field, a magnet to apply the magnetic field to the Faraday rotator in each of the plurality of optical devices, wherein at least two optical devices of the plurality of optical devices are configured to have the optical isolator functions in different directions from each other, and each magnetic field applied with the magnet is in the same direction. This provides an optical isolator module that can be prevented from degradation of the performance such as increase of insertion loss and degradation of isolation due to magnetic field interference even when a plurality of optical isolators are close to each other.

Abstract: To provide a faraday rotator using a TGG ceramic sintered compact and a light isolator using the faraday rotator such that the influence of scattered light can be relatively reduced and overall characteristics degradation for the entire light isolator is minimized so that a high extinction ratio of at least 38 dB or greater is achieved. [Solution] The faraday rotator according to the present invention uses a TGG ceramic sintered compact having an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 5.0 ?m, and has a transmission beam diameter of 0.3 mm or more, the TGG ceramic sintered compact being preferably annealed.

Abstract: A computer is caused to execute processing that determines, based on a first usage amount of a hardware resource which is allocated for processing corresponding to objects of a first category including an essential object located in a target scene, a second usage amount of the hardware resource that is able to be allocated for processing for objects of a second category different to the first category. Also, the computer is caused to execute processing of deciding, for objects of the second category which are located in the target scene, types of those objects and an outer appearance parameter for each type based on the second usage amount and information for deciding outer appearances for when the objects of the second category are located in the target scene.

Abstract: A small, low-cost 1.5-stage optical isolator has, in a forward direction, incoming light and outgoing light polarization directions that are parallel. The isolator includes a first Faraday rotator, a first polarizer, a second Faraday rotator and a second polarizer arranged in order on a light transmission path, and a magnet arranged so as to apply a same-direction magnetic field to the first Faraday rotator and the second Faraday rotator. Faraday rotation in the first Faraday rotator and Faraday rotation in the second Faraday rotator occur in opposite directions.