Abstract: A three-dimensional optical waveguide is formed by laminating planar substrates such as a plurality of lens substrates and, an isolator substrate and a wavelength division multiplexing filter, the optical substrates at least include a waveguide substrate having a waveguide and a reflecting surface. In the three-dimensional optical waveguide, the planar substrates are positioned by markers integrally formed on at least two of the planar substrates. Light directed into the waveguide is reflected by a reflecting surface and passes through the lens substrates and the isolator substrate.

Abstract: An optical waveguide component has a first optical member in which a predetermined first core pattern groove is formed and a second optical member in which a predetermined second core pattern groove is formed, the first and second optical members being combined together so that said first and second core pattern grooves are opposingly overlapped with each other, and the first and second core pattern grooves being filled with a core material.

Abstract: There is provided an optical package substrate and a molding method therefor, which provides for easy production, easy mounting of optical elements such as photodiodes and lasers, good functionality, productivity, and economy, as well as an optical device incorporating the package substrate. On the surface of an optical package substrate 11, a guide groove 12 used for the positioning of an optical fiber and a tapered face 13 adjoining the guide groove 12 are provided, the tapered face 13 being formed so as to have a predetermined angle. A mirror 17 for reflecting light is formed on the tapered face 13. An optical fiber 15 is affixed in the guide groove 12. Above the tapered face 13 is mounted a surface reception type photodiode 16, which is placed in a position for receiving light deflected by the mirror 17 provided on the tapered face 13.

Abstract: Although press formation is a process capable of mass-producing components of the same shape at low cost, conventional die processing using a microgrinder has a poor applicability because it can only do as much as molding V grooves for guiding optical fibers. Microdischarge machining is employed to obtain a die that has been difficult to obtain with a grinding process using a microgrinder, and an optical package substrate is produced by press formation using such a die. Thus, an optical fiber, an optical waveguide, a lens, an isolator, an optical filter and a light receiving/emitting element can be mounted by passive alignment, whereby optical devices and optical modules with multiple functions can be mass-produced at low cost.

Abstract: An antireflection coating has at least a first layer constituted by a coating with refractivity of n1 and optical thickness of d1 which is provided on a substantially transparent substrate with refractivity of n0, and a second layer constituted by a SiO2 coating with optical thickness of d2 which is provided on the first layer,

Abstract: An optical mount substrate of the present invention includes: an optical waveguide groove 11 provided in a glass substrate 17 where loss in high frequencies is small; and via holes 12 for connection wiring or heat radiation that are provided in a direction of substrate thickness.

Abstract: An optical waveguide part has, wherein a plurality of optical members each having an optical waveguide groove are installed on a substrate with a fixing groove for fixing an optical fiber in such a:manner that said optical waveguide grooves,are connected together, an optical element is located between the plurality of optical members with said optical waveguide groove, and a recess of each of said optical waveguide grooves is filled with a material having a higher refractive index than said substrate and said optical member.

Abstract: The optical transmission system according to the present invention includes a wavelength division multiplex optical transmitter having a band division portion 3 for dividing a frequency-multiplexed electrical signal into a plurality of frequency bands, semiconductor lasers 8 and 9 for converting the electrical signals of the plurality of frequency bands into a plurality of optical signals utilizing respective different wavelengths for each of the frequency bands, and an optical multiplex portion 12 for multiplexing each of the optical signals, and a wavelength division multiplex optical receiver having light-to-electricity conversion portion 34 and 35 for converting an optical signal from the wavelength division multiplex optical transmitter into an electrical signal, and respectively reconstructing the electrical signals of the plurality of frequency bands by dividing the converted electrical signal into a plurality of frequency bands.

Abstract: An optical element has a substrate having or not having a channel for optical waveguide; and a material which has a refractive index higher than that of the substrate and is filled in the channel for optical waveguide or is disposed on the substrate; wherein

Abstract: An optical waveguide component has a first optical member in which a predetermined first core pattern groove is formed and a second optical member in which a predetermined second core pattern groove is formed, the first and second optical members being combined together so that said first and second core pattern grooves are opposingly overlapped with each other, and the first and second core pattern grooves being filled with a core material.

Abstract: An optical waveguide component has a first optical member in which a predetermined first core pattern groove is formed and a second optical member in which a predetermined second core pattern groove is formed, the first and second optical members being combined together so that said first and second core pattern grooves are opposingly overlapped with each other, and the first and second core pattern grooves being filled with a core material.

Abstract: This invention provides a light absorber which can be used for optical equipment like optical-disk equipment and a liquid crystal display. The light absorber has a layered structure including a light absorbing layer and a transparent layer. The light absorbing layer absorbs a reflected light from the inside of the absorber as well as incident light into the absorber while the transparent layer helps attenuate the reflected light by interference of light. One of the light absorbing layers which is thicker than others may work as a shading layer for the incident light.

Abstract: A prism and an optical pickup employing such prism includes a parallel prism having a polarization beam splitter film and a reflection film. The polarization beam splitter film is formed on an angled plane of a glass material having an approximate parallelogram cross-section, and consists of a multi-layer film of a composite film made of Si and SiO.sub.2-x (x<0.5) and multiple layers of multiple dielectric films. The reflection film is formed on an angled plane of the same glass material approximately parallel to the angled plane on which the polarization beam splitter film is formed, and consists of a multi-layer film of a composite film made of metal Si and oxide SiO.sub.2-x (x<0.5) as a high refractive film and multiple layers of multiple dielectric films as a relatively low refractive film.

Abstract: An optical head has a light source; luminous flux splitting means for splitting radiation luminous flux of linearly polarized light radiated from the light source into plural luminous fluxes without changing the luminous flux diameter substantially; a wavelength plate for polarizing at least one of the luminous fluxes split by the luminous flux splitting means into a nearly circularly polarized light as illumination luminous flux; an objective lens for converging the illumination luminous flux through the wavelength plate on an optical information medium and collecting the reflected light; and a photodetector for receiving the reflected luminous flux collected by the objective lens after passing through the wavelength plate and the luminous flux splitting means. The quantity of received light for maintaining the S/N ratio is sufficient for reproducing a high density optical disk and a conventional optical disk with a large birefringence.

Abstract: A multilayer film forming apparatus including a film forming chamber, a substrate on which a multilayer film is formed, an optical thickness monitoring substrate which controls an optical thickness of each layer of a multilayer film, a monitor exchange system which exchanges the optical thickness monitoring substrate for each layer and a multilayer film monitoring substrate which is disposed under the optical thickness monitoring substrate to observe spectral characteristics of the multilayer film.

Abstract: An optical head has a light source, luminous flux splitting means for splitting radiation luminous flux of linearly polarized light radiated from the light source into plural luminous fluxes, a wavelength plate for polarizing at least one of the luminous fluxes split by the luminous flux splitting means into a nearly circularly polarized light as illumination luminous flux, an objective lens for converging the illumination luminous flux on an optical information medium and collecting the reflected light, and a photo detector for receiving the reflected luminous flux, after passing through the wavelength plate and the luminous flux splitting means, wherein supposing a power efficiency when splitting the illumination luminous flux from the radiation luminous flux to be E1, a power efficiency when transmitting a polarized light component of the reflected luminous flux, the component being orthogonal to a direction of polarization of the illumination luminous flux, to the photo detector to be E2, and a power effi

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for forming a multi-layer film, includes: a thickness control device for controlling an optical film thickness or a thickness of each of the layers of the multi-layer film; a multi-layer film monitoring substrate on which the multi-layer film is formed; a measurement device for measuring the optical characteristics of the multi-layer film formed on the multi-layer film monitoring substrate; and a processing device which processes the results obtained by the measurement device so as to feed the processed results back to the thickness control device.