Optical waveguide device with reduced driving voltage

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2007-07-03

2007-07-03

Bovernick, Rodney (Department: 2874)

Optical waveguides

Temporal optical modulation within an optical waveguide

Electro-optic

C385S002000, C385S040000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10298560

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an optical waveguide device wherein a driving voltage to be applied is reduced. The optical waveguide device comprises a substrate cut in a Z-axis direction and having an electro-optical effect, an interference type optical waveguide formed on the substrate for causing lights which propagate along a plurality of parallel optical waveguides to interfere with each other, and a lumped-constant type electrode for applying a voltage for the electro-optical effect to the light propagating along the optical waveguides which form the interference type optical waveguide. The lumped-constant type electrode complements potentials to be supplied to adjacent ones of the plurality of parallel optical waveguides to each other such that voltages having an equal absolute value but having the opposite signs are applied to the adjacent optical waveguides. The apparatus of the present invention is applied to, for example, an optical communication system.

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Copy of European Search Report dated Feb. 15, 2005 (3 pages).
Japanese Patent Office “Notice of Reasons for Rejection”, dated Feb. 15, 2005.
Japanese Patent Office Action (Notification of Reason(s) for Refusal) dated Jan. 31, 2006, in corresponding Japanese Application No. 2002-031483.

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