Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Patent
1995-03-28
2000-01-11
Bovernick, Rodney
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
385 88, 385 90, 385 91, 385 92, 385 24, 385146, G02B 636, G02B 642
Patent
active
060128550
ABSTRACT:
A parallel optical data link using multimode optical components. The invention includes an array of photonic optical sources and an array of multimode waveguides optically coupled adjacent to the array of sources. Similarly, the invention further includes an array of photonic optical detectors and an array of multimode waveguides optically coupled adjacent to the array of detectors. The invention further includes a multimode optical fiber ribbon having a longitudinal dimension and first and second opposing extremities for transmission of light there through. The source coupled waveguide array is in optical communication with the first extremity of the fiber ribbon, while the detector coupled waveguide array is in optical communication with the second extremity of the fiber ribbon. Since the present invention transmits data over a parallel optical link, the invention does not limit data transmission speed to the capacity of just one fiber and the associated source and detector, as in previously known serial data links. Furthermore, since the present invention uses multimode components such as multimode optical waveguides and multimode optical fibers, the invention is not as vulnerable to optical misalignment, as in previously known serial data links using single mode fibers.
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Bovernick Rodney
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Kim Sung T.
Lenell Jack
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