Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

There is provided an optical waveguide device including a light-emitting element having a light-emitting part for emitting a laser beam and a light-receiving element having a light-receiving part for receiving a laser beam, the elements being arranged on a mounting substrate in parallel with each other; and a first lens for optically coupling the laser beam emitted from the light-emitting part to a first optical waveguide core and a second lens for optically coupling the laser beam conducted through a second optical waveguide core to the light-receiving part, the lenses being arranged in parallel with each other, and in the optical waveguide device. The light-emitting element is a surface light-emitting semiconductor laser having a transparent semiconductor substrate laminated with an active layer as the light-emitting part, the surface light-emitting semiconductor laser emitting the laser beam from the active layer through the transparent semiconductor substrate. In the case where the surface light-emitting semiconductor laser and the light-receiving element are placed on a flat surface, when the active layer and the light-receiving part differ from each other in height with respect the flat surface, the optical waveguide device is configured so that the active layer is located at a focus position of the first lens and the light-receiving part is located at a focus position of the second lens.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim