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US 2023/0400641 A1Published application
Optical connection device, composite optical connection device, and manufacturing method of optical connection device
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorTakenao YOKOMORI
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Abstract
An optical connection device includes a first optical component having a first optical axis, a second optical component having a second optical axis different from the first optical axis, and a silicon optical waveguide module that includes a silicon optical waveguide having a bending shape for changing a direction of the first optical axis to a direction of the second optical axis and is connected to each of the first optical component and the second optical component.
Claims15
An optical connection device comprising:
- a first optical component having a first optical axis;
- a second optical component having a second optical axis different from the first optical axis;
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- a silicon optical waveguide circuit including a silicon optical waveguide having a bending shape for changing a direction of the first optical axis to a direction of the second optical axis, and being connected to each of the first optical component and the second optical component.
1 more element
A composite optical connection device comprising:
- a first optical connection device including
- a first optical component having a first optical axis,
- a second optical component having a second optical axis different from the first optical axis, and
- a silicon optical waveguide circuit including a silicon optical waveguide having a bending shape for changing a direction of the first optical axis to a direction of the second optical axis, and being connected to each of the first optical component and the second optical component;
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- a second optical connection device including a configuration identical to that of the first optical connection device, wherein
- the second optical component of the first optical connection device and the second optical component of the second optical connection device are connected to each other via an optical transmission path.
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A manufacturing method of an optical connection device, comprising
- connecting, to each one of a first optical component having a first optical axis and a second optical component having a second optical axis different from the first optical axis, a silicon optical waveguide circuit including a silicon optical waveguide having a bending shape for changing a direction of the first optical axis to a direction of the second optical axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.