Optical connector and manufacturing method thereof

Abstract

An optical connector (10) of the present invention includes a front-stage block (11) on which an optical fiber is mounted, a rear-stage block (12) on which a polymer waveguide is mounted, a self-forming waveguide (18) arranged between the front-stage block and the rear-stage block, the self-forming waveguide configured to connect the optical fiber and the polymer waveguide, and a cladding portion (19) formed around the self-forming waveguide, wherein the self-forming waveguide is a portion cured by irradiation of resin curing light in a self-forming waveguide material arranged between the front-stage block and the rear-stage block. Thus, the present invention can provide an optical connector that reduces a connection loss between an optical fiber and a polymer waveguide by a simple structure.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.