Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Patent
1991-10-30
1992-10-13
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
385 24, 385 77, 385137, 385 49, 156158, G02B 626, B65H 6902
Patent
active
051557851
ABSTRACT:
A substantially parallel array of printed wiring boards (11A-E) each support a light source element (13A-E) and a light detector element (14A-E). Each light source element is connected to all of the light detector elements of the other printed wiring boards by optical fibers (18) supported in arcuate grooves (16) of an optical backplane member (12). Each source element is also connected to a source terminal (26) and each detector element is connected to a detector terminal (27), which permit bypass interconnections between selective source elements and detector elements. In another embodiment (FIGS. 10 and 11) a broad surface (33) of the optical backplane member (32) contacts edges of the printed wiring boards (31A-C).
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Holland William R.
Shahid Muhammed A.
Anderson R. B.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Healy Brian
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