Patent 7633672 was granted and assigned to NGK Insulators on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A wavelength conversion device is provided having a ridge optical waveguide and a periodic domain inversion structure formed in the waveguide. The optical waveguide has side wall faces, an upper face and edge areas formed between the upper face and the side wall face, respectively. R-faces are formed on the edge areas.