| 摘要 |
A light guide part which can reflect a light totally and transfer the light, an optical switching part which has its extraction plane close to a totally reflective plane to capture an evanescent light and reflects and emits the evanescent light and a driving part which drives the optical switching part are layered in the direction of the light emission in this order to obtain an optical switching device with a hierarchical structure. By employing the hierarchical structure, the respective layers can be optimized. Especially, as the extracted light is not passed through the driving part, the driving part can be optimized to provide an optical switching device which can operate at a high velocity and with a low power consumption. Therefore, an optical switching device which shows the low loss of a light utilizing an evanescent wave, has a high response velocity and, further, shows a large contrast ratio can be provided. |
