US Patent 7450811 Optical waveguide device and optical modulator

In an optical waveguide device according to the present invention, a multi-layer cladding which is formed by laminating one or more high refractive index layers having the refractive index higher than that of a core and one or more low refractive index layers having the refractive index lower than that of the core, is disposed on a substrate on which an optical waveguide is formed, and utilizing the structural birefringence of this multi-layer cladding, the polarization-dependence of the optical waveguide is increased. As a result, it becomes possible to provide the optical waveguide device having a simple optical waveguide structure for selectively attenuating one of polarization modes of a propagated light.