Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
Reexamination Certificate
2010-10-07
2011-11-15
Healy, Brian M. (Department: 2883)
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
C385S031000, C385S033000, C385S052000, C385S053000, C385S073000, C385S076000, C385S088000, C385S092000, C385S093000, C385S139000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08057106
ABSTRACT:
A fiber optical connector microlens is provided with a focal plane aligning fiber trap. The microlens is made from a convex first lens surface, a second lens surface (planar or convex), and a fiber trap integrally formed with the second lens surface for aligning a face of an optical fiber core in a microlens focal plane. In one aspect, the fiber trap includes a barrel attached to the second lens surface and a clamping mechanism to prevent an inserted fiber core, with a diameter about equal to a barrel interior surface diameter, from being withdrawn from the barrel. The fiber trap clamping mechanism can be an irregular barrel interior surface to frictionally engage a fiber core exterior surface, a constricted region of the barrel interior surface, having a diameter smaller than an uncompressed fiber core diameter, or a corkscrew region of the barrel interior surface.
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Greenberg Reid
Roy Subhash
Zhovnirovsky Igor
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
Healy Brian M.
Lam Hung
Law Office of Gerald Maliszewski
Maliszewski Gerald
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