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An optical element, an optical device, and a display device are disclosed that are able to change a polarization state in time order and to produce polarized light with little wavelength dependence and superior in polarization purity, and able to perform pixel shift easily and accurately to realize high resolution image display. The optical element has a translucent surface parallel to the rotational axis of the optical element, and at least a portion of the translucent surface is formed from an optically anisotropic medium. A polarization state of a light beam transmitting through the translucent surface is switched in time order along with rotation of the optical element.

A diffraction grating device includes a substrate with a primary surface having a plurality of grating areas that are periodically arranged with a constant period in a predetermined axis direction, the grating area including a first area and a second area, a diffraction grating structure providing a chirped grating whose pitch monotonically changes along the predetermined axis direction, a core layer that is optically coupled with the diffraction grating structure with a coupling coefficient, a plurality of grating portions including the diffraction grating structure and the core layer, the grating portion including a first portion and second portion that are arranged on the first area and the second area, respectively, of the primary surface and a perturbing layer disposed at the first portion or the second portion. The perturbing layer changes the coupling coefficient between the diffraction grating structure and core layer. A periodical change in the coupling coefficient is formed along the core layer, and this change in the coupling coefficient affects the light propagating through the core layer in the direction of the predetermined axis.

A waveguide type polarizing beam splitter belongs to the technical field of integrated photon devices, is based on the total internal reflection principle and the mode field coupling principle and adopts liquid crystal materials with a large double refraction difference. According to the invention, optical signals of different polarization states can automatically select specific branch waveguides at branch positions to transmit so as to realize effective separation of the optical signals of different polarization states; the refractivity of the liquid crystals at a regulation and control area can be changed through utilizing an electro-optical effect so as to achieve the purpose that the output ports of the optical signals of different polarization states exchange and further realize regulation and control of a polarized light output passage. The polarizing beam splitter provided by the invention has the advantages of simple structure, easiness in design and manufacturing, low wave length dependence, simplicity and convenience in regulation and control, and the like, and has an application prospect in an integrated photon system.

Provided is a resin composition for light scattering layer for use in forming a light scattering layer of an organic EL device, including: a binder composition including at least one type of resin (A); and light scattering particles (B). In a resin composition for light scattering layer of the invention, the light scattering particles (B) have an average particle diameter of 200 nm to 500 nm in the resin composition and have a content of 20 vol % or less of particles with a particle diameter of 600 nm or more with respect to a total amount of the light scattering particles (B); and a refractive index difference between the binder composition and the light scattering particles (B) is 0.1 or more.

Provided are an easy-to-handle thin diffraction type light-condensing film exhibiting high light transmissivity and condensation ability, and a planar light source device using the film. A hologram optical element using diffraction/interference phenomena based on wave properties of light is used instead of a conventional prism sheet using refraction. As a result, the diffraction type light-condensing film and the planar light source device have high light transmissivity and are thin. In the diffraction type light-condensing film, dependence of bending angle on wave length is low and light entering from an oblique direction is bent in the vertical direction and emitted with spectral separation of white light suppressed. High light-condensation impossible in a conventional optical element is realized by suppressing angular variation in emission light for angular variation in incident light.

The invention relates to a light-scattering layer used for forming an organic EL device. The light-scattering layer comprises an adhesive composition containing at least one resin (A) and resin compositions for a light-scattering layer of light-scattering particles (B). In a first resin composition for the light-scattering layer, an average particle diameter of the light-scattering particles (B) is above 200nm and below 500nm, and particles having a particle diameter above 600nm accounts for 20 volume% of the total amount of the light-scattering particles (B), and a refraction difference between the adhesive composition and the light-scattering particles (B) is above 0.1. In a second resin composition for the light-scattering layer, the resin (A) has double bonds and/or a cross-linking group, and has a mass average molecular weight (Mw) above 5,000 and less than 20,000; the light-scattering particles (B) has an average particle diameter above 200nm and below 1.0[miu]m in the resin compositions for the light-scattering layer; and a refraction difference between the adhesive composition and the light-scattering particles (B) is above 0.1.

The present invention reduces the wavelength-dependency of the phase difference applied to optical waves propagating in optical waveguide arms constituting a coherent mixer. The optical waveguide device comprises a 3dB multimode interferometer splitter having: a first optical branching element which branches a first input light and outputs the same to a first and a second optical waveguide; a second optical branching element which branches a second input light and outputs the same to a third and a fourth optical waveguide; a first optocoupler which, after joining the light waves propagating in the first and third optical paths, branches the light to output a first and a second output light; and a second optocoupler which, after joining the light waves propagating in the second and fourth optical paths, branches the light to output a third and a fourth output light. The optical path length of the first and second optical waveguide pair is equal to the optical path length of the third and fourth optical waveguide pair. The first optical branching element has a structure whereby light is input from a position overlapping with the centre of optical propagation of the element. The second optical branching element has a structure whereby light is input from a position further towards the edge side than the centre of optical propagation of the element.

Provided is a light branching optical waveguide including: at least one incident light waveguide (A) optically connected to one end of a multi-mode optical waveguide; and output light waveguides (B) larger in number than the incident light waveguide (A) optically connected to the other end thereof, the light branching optical waveguide being characterized in that: an intensity distribution of light incident from at least one optical waveguide (a) out of the incident light waveguide (A) on the multi-mode optical waveguide at a connecting surface of the incident light waveguide (A) and the multi-mode optical waveguide is asymmetric with respect to a geometrical central axis of the optical waveguide (a); and an extended line of the geometrical center axis of the optical waveguide (a) does not coincide with a geometrical central axis of the multi-mode optical waveguide. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a low-loss light branching optical waveguide having a reduced branch loss and a reduced variation in branching ratio, and further to obtain a light branching optical waveguide having small wavelength dependence as well as a reduced branch loss and a reduced variation in branching ratio.

A 2-input, 2-output optical circuit is constructed by serially connecting two or more Mach-Zehnder interferometers possessing a structure in which two waveguides are embraced by two couplers. One output and one input of the two 2-input, 2-output optical circuit are connected by an optical propagation path to thereby construct a loop circuit. The waveguides of the Mach-Zehnder interferometers as well as the loop circuit are each provided with an optical path-length adjustment portion, thereby constructing a wavelength dispersion compensating filter.

A semiconductor laser device has structure including: a semiconductor laser chip having an emission surface and a reflection surface which are opposing end surfaces of a resonator; and a photodiode for detecting light that exits from the reflection surface side, the photodiode being used in a wavelength band where a sensitivity of the photodiode rises as a wavelength lengthens, in which the emission surface has a first dielectric multilayer film formed thereon and the reflection surface has a second dielectric multilayer film formed thereon, and in which, when a wavelength at which a reflectance of the first dielectric multilayer film peaks is given as λ_f and a wavelength at which a reflectance of the second dielectric multilayer film peaks is given as λ_r, a relation λ_f<λ_r is satisfied.

An objective lens according to the present invention is an objective lens used for an optical pickup apparatus, and the objective lens includes a superimposed structure on a surface of a lens with a power in which a first optical path difference providing structure changing spherical aberration in under-corrected direction when a wavelength of an incident light flux becomes longer, and a second optical path difference providing structure changing spherical aberration in over-corrected direction when a wavelength of an incident light flux becomes longer are superimposed.