Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Patent
1991-08-02
1992-11-10
Lee, John D.
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
385 49, G02B 642
Patent
active
051631083
ABSTRACT:
A method of passively aligning optical receiving elements such as fibers to the active elements of a light generating chip includes the steps of forming two front and one side pedestal structures on the surface of a substrate body, defining a vertical sidewall of the chip to form a mating channel having an edge at a predetermined distance from the first active element, mounting the chip epi-side down on the substrate surface, and positioned the fibers in fiber-receiving channels so that a center line of each fiber is aligned to a center line of a respective active element. When mounted, the front face of the chip is abutting the contact surfaces of the two front pedestals, and the defined sidewall of the mating channel is abutting the contact surface of the side pedestal. The passive alignment procedure is also effective in aligning a single fiber to a single active element.
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Armiento Craig A.
Barry Vincent J.
Fitzgerald Thomas W.
Haugsjaa Paul O.
Jagannath Chirravuri
GTE Laboratories Incorporated
Heartney Phan Thi
Lee John D.
Lohmann, III Victor F.
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