Patents Assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  • Patent number: 6466714
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabricating an optical fiber-processing phase mask in which a stitching error ascribable to a deterioration in the wavelength selectivity of the optical fiber diffraction grating to be fabricated is reduced. At an exposure step, a writing stage 5 with a phase mask blank 10 placed thereon is continuously fed in one direction while portions of the phase mask blank corresponding to grooves 26 or strips 27 in a direction perpendicular to the direction of feeding are sequentially scanned with writing beams 14, whereby the entire area of the phase mask blank 10 to be written is continuously written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Kurihara, Toshikazu Segawa, Tetsuro Komukai, Masataka Nakazawa