Optical component
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorAtsushi Miki
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Abstract
An optical component includes a light emitter; an optical receiver; first and second electro-optical crystal layers configured to intersect with each other; and a control line configured to supply a signal for changing refractive indexes of the first and second electro-optical crystal layers, wherein the first and second electro-optical crystal layers are switched according to the signal between a first state where light from the light emitter is transmitted through the first electro-optical crystal layer and a second state where the light is reflected by the first and second electro-optical crystal layers and the reflected light is incident on the optical receiver.
Claims8
An optical component comprising:
- a light emitter;
- an optical receiver;
- first and second electro-optical crystal layers configured to intersect with each other;
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- a control line configured to supply a signal for changing refractive indexes of the first and second electro-optical crystal layers,
- wherein the first and second electro-optical crystal layers are switched according to the signal between a first state where light from the light emitter is transmitted through the first electro-optical crystal layer and a second state where the light is reflected by the first and second electro-optical crystal layers and the reflected light is incident on the optical receiver.
An optical component comprising:
- a light emitter;
- an optical receiver;
- a transmission path through which first light from the light emitter is incident and the first light is emitted to a first optical transmission line;
- a reception path through which second light from a second optical transmission line is incident and the second light is emitted to the optical receiver;
- electro-optical crystal layers configured to be switched according to an input signal between a first state where the first light on the transmission path and the second light on the reception path are respectively transmitted, and a second state where the first light which is incident from the light emitter is reflected and emitted to the optical receiver and where the second light which is incident from the second optical transmission line is reflected and emitted to the first optical transmission line;
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- a control line configured to input the input signal to the electro-optical crystal layers.
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