Method of manufacturing optical multiplexer and optical multiplexer manufactured thereby

A method of manufacturing an optical multiplexer (MUX), the method comprising:

• preparing a mold including a plate-shaped upper mold which has multiple first aspherical depressions having an aspherical surface shape and formed in a lower surface of the upper mold so as to form multiple columnar depression arrays, and a lower mold which has a plate shape corresponding to the upper mold and has multiple block-forming grooves having a triangle shape in vertical section and formed in an upper surface of a lower mold at positions corresponding to the columnar depression arrays;
• placing a raw material between the upper mold and the lower mold and pressing the upper and lower molds in the vertical direction, thus forming a molded product with multiple microarray lens layers in upper surfaces thereof and multiple optical blocks formed in lower surfaces thereof;
• removing the molded product from the mold;
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• cutting vertically the molded product in the row direction and column direction to manufacture an optical multiplexer and microlens arrays together from the molded product,
• wherein the optical multiplexer is obtained when the molded product is cut in the row direction;
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• the microlens array is obtained when the molded product is cut in the column direction.