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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Waveguide Device
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- June 19, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Osamu Mitomi and Yuichi Iwata, both of Nagoya, Japan, Kenji Aoki of Ichinomiya, Japan, Jungo Kondo of Nishikamo-Gun, Japan, and Tetsuya Ejiri of Kasugai, Japan, have developed an optical waveguide device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to provide an "optical waveguide device in which the radius of curvature of a curved part of an optical waveguide can be lowered and the radiation loss of light in the curved part can be reduced. An optical waveguide device has a ferroelectric optical waveguide substrate and an optical waveguide formed in or on the substrate and modulating electrodes. The thickness of the optical waveguide ...