Abstract:
A hybrid connector consists of an electrical connector and an optical connector. The electrical connector includes a housing with a wall having a terminal mount section and an optical connector mount section and terminals bent L-shaped and inserted through the terminal mount section into the electrical housing. The optical connector includes an optical housing, and a light emitting element module and a light receiving element module, both accommodated in the optical housing. The optical housing, when assembled to the electrical housing, overlies the terminals with a spacing therebetween. A compact hybrid connector is obtained.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical module, in which aligning adjustment is much easier than conventional module while a high optical coupling efficiency between an optical fiber and a semiconductor device is maintained. The module comprises a structure for effectively suppressing the decrease in optical coupling efficiency caused by changes in ambient temperature. The optical module comprises an optical reflecting member having a reflecting surface with a concave surface form for optically coupling the optical fiber and the semiconductor device to each other, and a deterioration-suppressing structure in which the charge in shape of the reflecting member cause by changes in ambient temperature effectively suppresses the deterioration in optical coupling state between the optical fiber and semiconductor device due to changes in temperature or the like.
Abstract:
In encapsulating an optocomponent with a plastics material an MT-connector compatible interface is obtained having bores (107) for guide pins in the wall of the capsule and optical connection surfaces (110). These bores (107) are obtained from mould cavity guide pins which are used for aligning the optocomponent in a mould cavity in a mould in the moulding operation of the encapsulating material on top of the component. In order to achieve a good accuracy in the positioning of the component during the moulding operation the mould guide pins are as short as possible and end directly behind the component where they are supported by projections extending from each mould half. Thus cavities (109) are created extending straight through the capsule (105) behind the component. The cavities (109) allow that the guide pin bores (107) are cleansed and that material residues are removed after the moulding operation. Further, the cavities (109) can be used for spring clamps which are used for retaining the optocomponent capsule (105) at an optical connector having a similar interface. The clamps can then have tongues which are inserted in the cavities (109) and which, in addition, can be provided with holes, through which the guide pins can be pushed to safe-guard the clamp against being lost.
Abstract:
An optical semiconductor module comprises an optical semiconductor element (6), an optical fiber (5), a monocrystalline substrate (1), an airtight sealing member (11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16) and a reinforcing body (8). Light is transmitted through the optical semiconductor element (6) and the optical fiber (5). The optical semiconductor element (6) and the optical fiber (5) are mounted on the monocrystalline substrate (1). The optical semiconductor element (6) is sealed airtight by the airtight sealing member (11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16). An optical axis aligning mechanism for aligning the optical axis of the optical semiconductor element (6) with the optical axis of the optical fiber (5) is arranged on the monocrystalline substrate (1). The reinforcing body (8) is welded with metal on the rear surface of the monocrystalline substrate (1).
Abstract:
A method for molding optical waveguides (600) wherein one or more optical cores (230) are molded first with an attached support structure (206). A unitary cladding layer (601) is then molded around the cores (230) and the support structure (206) is removed to provide optical inlet/outlets to the cores (230). The ends of the cores (605) where the support structure (206) is removed may require subsequent polishing. The molding compound injected into mold (100) is made of an optically transparent material, such as polymers, epoxies, plastics, polyimides, or the like that is selected to be transparent to a desired wavelength of light. Generally, refractive indexes of these optically transparent materials range from 1.4 to 1.7. Processing conditions for these materials range from 22°C to 200°C for molding temperatures and 200 pounds per square inch to 2,000 pounds per square inch for molding pressures. By injecting the molding material, represented by arrow (204), into the plurality of cavities (101), intricacies of features (104) of mold (100) are transferred to the molding compound. A subsequent curing process solidifies the molding compound, thereby permanently transferring the intricacies or a negative image of the plurality of features (104) to the solidified molding compound, and thereby generating optical elements or core regions (230).
Abstract:
An optical functional element is contained in and grounded to a metal package. A grounding lead member, which is connected to a grounding lead pin forming portion via a connecting lead portion, is welded to the outer surface of the metal package either before or after resin molding.
Abstract:
An optical transceiver device includes a baseplate including a set position for mounting an optical element, an alignment plate including a mounting unit, a first and a second reference hole. The device includes an optical-fiber fixing block configured to fixedly mount at least one of a lens unit and an optical fiber optically linked with the optical element and to include a first and a second post, and a housing for enclosing the optical-fiber fixing block and alignment plate. The second post is inserted into the second reference hole in a looser manner than inserting the first post into the first reference hole, and the set position is determined by a first baseline passing through the first and the second reference hole and by a second baseline intersecting with the first baseline and positioned on opposite side of the second reference hole with respect to the first reference hole.
Abstract:
If a light-emitting side FOT 35 and a light-receiving side FOT 36 each having an optical element and a plurality of pin-like lead frames 55 is covered by a shield case 37 formed of an electrically conductive metallic plate, a ground pin 71 of the shield case 37 is positioned immediately behind a lead frame 55b which functions as a ground pin among the plurality of lead frames 55.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical module which is modularized including an optical element and an optical transmission member for mass data high-speed transmission of a board in a device and mass data high-speed transmission between devices, and in which optical alignment is completed between the optical element and the optical transmission member in the module, thereby removing an optical alignment error occurring when mounting it on an external PCB substrate, and provides an optical module includes an optical transmission member (100), an optical element 200, a substrate 210, an electrode pad 220 between the optical element 200 and an external circuit, and optical block 300 including an optical transmission member mounting portion, wherein the optical transmission member mounting portion is formed on the optical block in an optical axis direction such that optical transmission efficiency is the maximum. In addition, a manufacturing method of the optical module includes mounting and electrically connecting the optical element 200 on one face of the substrate 210, calculating a position on a 2-dimensional plane of an optical input/output point of the optical element 200, then forming a base material of the optical block 300 to impregnate the optical element 200 onto the substrate 210, thereafter, forming the optical transmission member mounting portion 310 at the position on the 3-dimensional plane of the optical input/output point calculated in the former step on the base material, and mounting the optical transmission member 100 on the optical transmission member mounting portion 310.