Patent 7772939 was granted and assigned to NEC Corporation on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus adapted for easily performing polarization switching is disclosed. Within a second waveguide connected to a first waveguide, there is embedded a polarization transformation circuit in the state rotated relative to the second waveguide at an angle set, based on a reflection characteristic indicating a characteristic of a reflection coefficient with respect to a polarization frequency.