Abstract: New material useful in miniature, low-cost Faraday rotators, polarizers (analyzers) and magnetic substances; in Faraday rotators and optical isolators that can handle a plurality of wavelengths; and in miniaturizing, and reducing the cost and enhancing the performance of, optical isolators and various optical devices. Optical isolator (60b) as one example is configured by rectilinearly arranging a wavelength-selective Faraday rotator (30), a polarizer (20) and an analyzers (40) formed from a DLC thin film, and a magnetic substance (50) that is transparent to light. Integrally forming these using thin-film lamination technology simplifies the fabrication procedure to enable manufacturing miniature, low-cost optical isolators.

Abstract: In an optical transmitter in which the amount of light of an LD is monitored by a monitor PD, and the power of the LD is kept constant by feedback, the present invention aims to provide an optical transmitter that is suitable for size and cost reductions while being able to input a greater amount of the LD light of to the monitor PD, and that is capable of performing higher-bit-rate transmission. The present invention is characterized in that a concave groove is formed in a substrate, and the monitor photodiode is mounted on a slanted face of the concave groove, and the light of the LD that is oppositely and horizontally disposed is received directly by the monitor the LD photodiode.

Abstract: A dehydration and consolidation furnace and a dehydration and consolidation method in which gas in a chamber does not leak to a furnace body room and gas in a furnace body room does not leak into a chamber is provided. A furnace of one embodiment of this invention has first muffle tube 3 and second muffle tube 4. The second muffle tube 4 is arranged coaxially around the first muffle tube 3. An optical fiber preform is arranged in this furnace. During the dehydration and consolidation process the pressure of the intermediate room 10 is set lower than a pressure inside the first muffle tube and outside the second muffle tube, and a gas supply and exhaust of the intermediate room 10 are performed independent of the gas supply and exhaust of the first muffle tube and a furnace body room.

Abstract: A connector terminal material which extends in one direction and of which an intermediate specified part is bent is molded. The above-described specified part of the connector terminal material has notched parts formed at both sides in the terminal width direction and is made narrow thereat, and a flange part 12b is formed at this side of the tip end part. A connector terminal is produced by bending the specified part of the connector terminal material. While the connector terminal is being guided by a connector fixture which is narrower than the above-described flange part and has a wider deep groove than the other parts, the flange part is pressed by the press-fit surface of the end edge part of open end of the deep groove 23, whereby the tip end of the above-described connector terminal is press-fitted into the penetrating hole of the printed circuit board. Through the above-described processes, it is possible to produce a substrate with a connector.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oxide superconducting wire which can manufacture the longest possible wire by connecting relatively short wires with each other and is capable of suppressing reduction of a critical current resulting from influence by strain when the wires connected with each other are bent, an oxide superconducting wire, a superconducting coil and a superconducting apparatus are provided. According to the method of manufacturing an oxide superconducting wire by superposing end portions of two oxide superconducting wires (1, 2) with each other thereby bonding the end portions and connecting the oxide superconducting wires with each other, a junction (L) formed by superposing the end portions with each other is so worked as to reduce the quantity of strain on an end of the junction (L) when the two oxide superconducting wires (1) and (2) connected with each other are bent.

Abstract: An optical module 10 comprises a mounting member 20, a lens holding member 30, a lens 32 and an optical semiconductor element 22. The mounting member 20 and the lens holding member 30 are arranged along a predetermined axis 12. The optical semiconductor element 22 is optically coupled to the lens 32. The wall portion of the lens holding member 30 comprises a first inner surface 30g and a second inner surface 30f. The first inner surface 30g is located outside a reference surface extending in a direction of the predetermined axis and intersecting with a supporting portion to form a predetermined closed line, and the second inner surface 30f is located inside the reference surface.

Abstract: A three-storied structure optical communications module having a top case, a middle case and a bottom case which are piled and coupled in a vertical direction. The middle case has a silicon bench with M (channel number) lightwaveguides, a first WDM1, a second WDM2, M (channel number) laser diodes for generating transmitting signals ?1. The top case has a set of ?2 receiving photodiodes PD1s of the channel number M. The bottom case has another set of ?3 receiving photodiodes PD2s. ?2 signal beams and ?3 signal beams propagating in optical fibers go into the lightwaveguides on the middle case. The ?2 signal beams are reflected midway on the lightwaveguides by the WDM1 upward to the photodiodes PD1s on the top case and are converted into photocurrents by the photodiodes PDs. The ?3 signal beams are reflected halfway on the lightwaveguides by the WDM2 downward to the photodiodes PD2s and are converted into photocurrents by the photodiodes PD2s.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silicon nitride based sintered body having excellent mechanical properties from room temperature to a medium low temperature range, a low friction coefficient and excellent wear resistance. The sintered body comprises silicon nitride, titanium compounds and boron nitride or silicon nitride, titanium based nitride and/or carbide, silicon carbide and graphite and/or carbon; and has a mean particle diameter of 100 nm or less and a friction coefficient under lubricant free conditions of 0.3 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides oligopeptides having morphogenesis promoting activity and in particular, hair promoting activity. The oligopeptides may be in monomer form, monomer having a reactive substance bound form or as a polymer, such as a dimer including a homodimer; heterodimer; homotrimer; or heterotrimer. The present invention also provides antibodies, such as polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies, or fragments thereof, that specifically recognize a 220 kDa antigen of epithelial new hair follicles; hybridomas producing such monoclonal antibodies; and methods and kits for assaying hair growth in mammalian subjects using such antibodies.

Abstract: The GaN single-crystal substrate 11 in accordance with the present invention has a polished surface subjected to heat treatment for at least 10 minutes at a substrate temperature of at least 1020° C. in a mixed gas atmosphere containing at least an NH3 gas. As a consequence, an atomic rearrangement is effected in the surface of the substrate 11 in which a large number of minute defects are formed by polishing, so as to flatten the surface of the substrate 11. Therefore, the surface of an epitaxial layer 12 formed on the substrate 11 can be made flat.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a connection unit capable of improving transmission characteristics. The connection unit according to this invention is provided between a plurality of first optical fibers extending from an optical amplifier and a plurality of second optical fibers in an optical cable, and comprises one or more optical components to connect one first optical fiber to one second optical fiber. Each of the optical components includes third and fourth optical fibers that can be connected to one first optical fiber and one second optical fiber with low connection losses, respectively, and a loss adjusting section for adjusting a transmission loss. The transmission loss deviation in a plurality of optical transmission lines is adjusted to 0.005 dB/km or less.

Abstract: A porous metal body having a foam structure of 500 ?m or less in average pore diameter, wherein the skeleton is composed of an alloy primarily including Fe and Cr, and Cr carbide or FeCr carbide is uniformly dispersed in the texture. The metal porous body is produced by preparing a slurry primarily containing an Fe oxide powder having an average particle diameter of 5 ?m or less, at least one powder selected from metallic Cr, Cr alloys, and Cr oxides, a thermosetting resin, and a diluent, applying a coating of this slurry to a resin core body having a foam structure, performing drying, and thereafter, performing firing in a non-oxidizing atmosphere so as to produce a metal porous body having the aforementioned skeleton structure.

Abstract: In a method of making a diffraction grating device, an optical waveguide is irradiated, by way of a phase grating mask, with refractive index modulation inducing light so as to form a diffraction grating in the predetermined region. This method comprises (1) a step of measuring a diffraction efficiency distribution of the phase grating mask; and (2) a step of longitudinally scanning the optical waveguide with the refractive index modulation inducing light by way of the phase grating mask and irradiating the optical waveguide with the refractive index modulation inducing light so as to modulate a refractive index of the predetermined region. Upon scanning with the refractive index modulation inducing light, longitudinal relative positions of the phase grating mask and optical waveguide are changed according to the diffraction efficiency distribution of the phase grating mask.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber equipped with a grating that functions as a narrow-band loss filter. The optical fiber has a core, an inner cladding, an intermediate cladding, and an outer cladding, which have refractive indexes n0, n1, n2, and n3, respectively, the refractive indexes having a relationship of n0>n3?n1n2. At least a part of the inner cladding has a grating. The refractive index of the intermediate cladding is lower than the refractive indexes of the inner cladding and the outer cladding such that a recession is formed in the refractive index profile of the clad. The grating is provided on the inner side relative to the recession.

Abstract: A self-supporting cable includes a main cable constructed by covering a cable core with an inner cover layer and installing one or more strength members inside the inner cover layer such that they lie on a plane passing through the central axis thereof; a support member; and an outer cover layer formed so as to cover the main cable and the support member while they are arranged in parallel. A support member portion including the support member and a part of the outer cover layer and a main cable portion including the main cable and a part of the outer cover layer are connected by connecting portions, which are also a part of the outer cover layer, in the longitudinal direction thereof. The main cable portion is made longer than the support member portion so that there is an allowance in the length thereof.

Abstract: Ceramic susceptor whose wafer-retaining face has superior isothermal properties, and that is suited to utilization in apparatuses for manufacturing semiconductors and in liquid-crystal manufacturing apparatuses. In plate-shaped sintered ceramic body 1, resistive heating element 2 is formed. Fluctuation in pullback length L between sintered ceramic body outer-peripheral edge 1a and resistive heating element substantive-domain outer-peripheral edge 2a is within ±0.8%, while isothermal rating of the entire surface of the wafer-retaining face is ±1.0% or less. Preferable is a superior isothermal rating of ±0.5% or less that can be achieved by bringing the fluctuation in pullback length L to within ±0.5%.

Abstract: A connector press-fitting jig is used for press-fitting a plurality of flanged terminals, which are protruded in a common direction from the housing a connector and bent midway in a common direction to extend in parallel and which are provided at their leading ends with press-fit portions and at their portions away from the leading ends with flanged portions bulged in a flange shape, into through holes of a board by guiding the flanged terminals with groove portions. The groove portions have a width within a range larger than the bent portions of the flanged terminals and smaller than the flange portion and are wider at their portions other than their opening ends than at the opening ends.

Abstract: The method of making a diamond product in accordance with the present invention comprises the steps of forming a diamond substrate (50) with a mask layer (52), and etching the diamond substrate (50) formed with the mask layer (52) with a plasma of a mixed gas composed of a gas containing an oxygen atom and a gas containing a fluorine atom, whereas the fluorine atom concentration is within the range of 0.04% to 6% with respect to the total number of atoms in the mixed gas.

Abstract: An optical communication module, such as an optical transmitter used for optical communication incorporating a semiconductor laser (LD) and a monitoring photodiode (MPD), and an optical transceiver including a photodiode (PD), is efficiently and inexpensively provided. As means therefor, two substrates are used, that is, an expensive and high-accuracy first substrate is accommodated in an recess provided in a second substrate that is inexpensive and that needs less accuracy. An optical transmission system is mounted on the first substrate, and the MPD is mounted on the second substrate having an inclined surface provided on an opposite side of the recess in terms of the optical transmission direction. This eases production work and simultaneously allows the decreaseed use of expensive substrates.

Abstract: An apparatus forms a diamond film from a microwave plasma by controlling a manufacturing condition based on a spectroscopic measurement of the plasma light emission to obtain a large area of a high-quality diamond film. Using the apparatus, a gas mixture of hydrocarbon gas and hydrogen gas is introduced into a reactor, where the gas mixture is excited by microwave energy which is also introduced into the reactor to generate a plasma, and the light emitted from the plasma is spectroscopically measured using a spectroscope. Furthermore, a formation condition of the diamond film is controlled such that the spectrum of a carbon molecule (C2) falls within a predetermined range of requirement. A carbon molecule vibration temperature is determined from the spectrum, and the formation condition, such as the microwave input power, the reactor pressure, or the gas flow rate, is controlled so that the determined vibration temperature falls within a specified range, especially 2000 to 2800 K.