Narrow, pluggable optical transceiver system
AssigneeAvago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorLaurence Ray McColloch
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Abstract
A transceiver module includes a housing assembly, a single optical cable receptacle, an electronics subassembly in the housing assembly having a generally planar substrate, and an optics subsystem. The optics subsystem redirects an optical beam between the surface of the substrate and an optical axis of the receptacle. The structure of the housing assembly promotes airflow through the transceiver module. The transceiver module can be plugged into a chassis or cage of an electronic system. A latching mechanism can be included to secure the transceiver module in the cage. A tab can be included to facilitate un-latching and removal of the transceiver module from the cage.
Claims13
An optical transceiver module system, comprising:
- an elongated rectangular transceiver module housing assembly having two transceiver module sidewalls elongated along a length of a transceiver module, a transceiver module top wall, a transceiver module bottom wall, and no more than a single receptacle disposed at an end of the housing assembly for receiving a single-fiber optical cable plug connector;
- an electronics subassembly (ESA) having a generally planar substrate, the substrate substantially co-planar with one of the two sidewalls of the housing assembly, the ESA having a light source and a light receiver mounted on a surface of the substrate, the ESA electrically mateable with an electronic system connector;
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- an optics subsystem, the optics subsystem redirecting an optical beam between the surface of the substrate and an optical axis of the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.