摘要:
An optical pickup device, which records/reproduces information on/from at least one optical medium having a plurality of recording surfaces or a plurality of optical media each having at least one recording surface, comprises a light source for emitting a beam of light, a plurality of optical heads for focusing the beam on a plurality of different recording surfaces, an optical path switching device, positioned between the light source and the optical heads, for changing an optical path for guiding the beam alternatively to one of the optical heads, a first relay lens, positioned between the light source and the optical path switching device, for changing the beam into a convergent beam, second relay lenses, positioned individually between the optical path switching device and the optical heads, for changing a divergent beam, obtained after the convergent beam from the first relay lens is temporarily converged, back into a parallel beam, and a lens drive unit for driving the first relay lens along the its optical axis so as to adjust the respective lengths of optical paths between the first relay lens and the second relay lenses.
摘要:
An optical functional device includes a semiconductor substrate, an optical functional layer provided on said semiconductor substrate and selected from the group consisting of a light emitting layer, a light absorbing layer, and an optical waveguide layer. The optical functional layer has a multi-quantum well layer. Preferably, the semiconductor substrate is a nonplanar semiconductor substrate having a ridge and two grooves adjacent said ridge, said ridge having a ridge width of from 1 to 10 .mu.m, a ridge height of from 1 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m, and a gap distance of from 1 .mu.m to 10 .mu.m. Such an optical functional device can be fabricated by growing, on a nonplanar semiconductor substrate having a specified dimension of the ridge, a strained multi-quantum well layer by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Integrated optical device or circuit preferably includes an optical functional device on the nonplanar semiconductor substrate of a specified range of ridge shape factors. An integrated optical device can be fabricated by combination of a plurality of optical functional devices having slightly different compositions and including a part of a strained multi-quantum well layer monolithically grown on a nonplanar semiconductor substrate.
摘要:
A saddle type vehicle includes a head pipe that steerably supports a steering system including a front wheel, a main frame extending rearwardly downward from the head pipe, left and right lower frames extending substantially in parallel to each other rearward from a lower portion of the main frame, and a storage space provided between the left and right lower frames on the rear side of the main frame. The storage space permits a fuel tank as a vehicle component part to be disposed therein. A front cross frame is connected to a lower end portion of a main frame lower portion and extends in the vehicle width direction. Front end portions of the lower frames are connected to left and right end portions of the front cross frame.
摘要:
A saddle type vehicle includes a head pipe that steerably supports a steering system including a front wheel, a main frame extending rearwardly downward from the head pipe, left and right lower frames extending substantially in parallel to each other rearward from a lower portion of the main frame, and a storage space provided between the left and right lower frames on the rear side of the main frame. The storage space permits a fuel tank as a vehicle component part to be disposed therein. A front cross frame is connected to a lower end portion of a main frame lower portion and extends in the vehicle width direction. Front end portions of the lower frames are connected to left and right end portions of the front cross frame.
摘要:
An optical switch of the present invention includes at least one input optical fiber, output optical fibers, at least one movable mirror for directing a light beam from the input optical fiber selectively to one of the output optical fibers, and at least one shutter for appropriately intercepting the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror from the input optical fiber. A direction of the movable mirror is changeable, and the direction of the movable mirror is changed to switch the output optical fiber that combines with the light beam reflected by the movable mirror. The shutter intercepts the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror while the direction of the movable mirror is changed.
摘要:
An optical switch includes an input optical fiber, an output optical fiber, a grating which performs spectral separation of an optical signal to a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths, a plurality of movable mirrors, each reflecting an optical light subjected to spectral separation, and directing the optical light appropriately to the input fiber, and each of the movable mirrors can be inclined, a mirror-angle detector which detects an angle of inclination of each of the movable mirrors, a table which associates a wavelength number which identifies the optical signals of the plurality of wavelengths, and an output-destination number which identifies the input optical fiber or the output optical fiber, with the angle of inclination of each movable mirror, and a control circuit which performs a feed-back control such that an angle of inclination AD which is output from the table and an output from the mirror-angle detector match.
摘要:
In an optical monitor for monitoring signal lights from a plurality of optical fibers, emission surfaces of the plurality of optical fibers are arranged along a straight line, and a photodetecting surface of a photodetecting element disposed so as to face the emission surfaces is moved in parallel to the straight line along which the emission surfaces are arranged in such manner that light from each of the emission surfaces is received by the photodetecting element, so that the plurality of signal lights are made incident on the photodetecting element successively. The present optical monitor thereby is capable of monitoring a large number of transmission paths while requiring a small number of components.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a photoconductive switch module. The photoconductive switch module comprises a first substrate having light-emitting elements, and a second substrate having photoconductive switch elements, whose number is equal to that of the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements face the photoconductive switch elements, so that the photoconductive switch elements are turned on/off in accordance with lighting/extinction of the light-emitting elements. The photoconductive switch module further comprises a third substrate arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. The third substrate has through holes, whose number is equal to that of the light-emitting elements. Each through hole is positioned between a light-emitting element and a photoconductive switch element facing each other. Drive light emitted from each light-emitting element travels to the photoconductive switch element via the through hole.
摘要:
An optical switch of the present invention includes at least one input optical fiber, output optical fibers, at least one movable mirror for directing a light beam from the input optical fiber selectively to one of the output optical fibers, and at least one shutter for appropriately intercepting the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror from the input optical fiber. A direction of the movable mirror is changeable, and the direction of the movable mirror is changed to switch the output optical fiber that combines with the light beam reflected by the movable mirror. The shutter intercepts the light beam traveling toward the movable mirror while the direction of the movable mirror is changed.
摘要:
A laser beam emitted from a laser source provided at a silicon substrate passes through a hologram element formed of a translucent flat plate and a grating, thereby being subjected to NA conversion executed by an NA converting lens, passing through a polarizing film of a polarization beam splitter, and converging onto a magneto-optical disk via a collimator lens and an objective. A part of back-reflection from the magneto-optical disk, which is reflected by a polarizing film of the polarization beam splitter, is reflected by a reflection surface of the splitter, then branched into two polarized light beams by a Wollaston prism, and guided to one light receiving element group. On the other hand, another part of the back-reflection, which passes through the polarization beam splitter, is branched into two beams by the hologram element and guided to the other light receiving element groups.