Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-05
2007-06-05
Font, Frank G. (Department: 2883)
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
C385S088000, C385S090000, C385S092000, C385S093000, C385S094000, C372S036000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10938974
ABSTRACT:
A laser module having a laser optically coupled with an optical fiber via a collimating lens and a focusing lens is formed. The laser is mounted in a laser housing so that its laser light output is directed toward a laser housing wall opening in a laser housing wall of the laser housing. A lens-fiber housing having a lens installed in a first end thereof and a light-receiving input end of the fiber disposed in a bore at a second end thereof is provided. The lens and input end of the fiber form a collimator. The lens-fiber housing is mounted from the outside of the laser housing to the laser housing wall to receive collimated light transmitted from inside the laser housing through the laser housing wall opening. The collimating lens is actively aligned in the laser housing, between the laser and the laser housing wall opening, to determine an aligned position. The collimating lens is secured in the laser housing at the aligned position.
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Chang Hung-Lun
Wang Chung-Yung
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
Grossman Tucker Perreault & Pfleger
Hughes James P.
Kinsella N. Stephan
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