Optical device
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorYoichi Taira
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Abstract
An optical device and a method of manufacturing an optical device. The optical device includes: a conversion means for converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light and for outputting the parallel light; and a first lens means for focusing the parallel light outputted from the conversion means on a core of an optical fiber. The method includes: converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light; outputting the parallel light; and focusing, using a first lens, the parallel light on a core of an optical fiber.
Claims6
An optical device comprising:
- a conversion means comprising a first lens means, overlying a reflective means, for converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light and for focusing and outputting the parallel light;
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- a second lens means opposite a convex lens surface of the first lens means for receiving the parallel light from the first lens means, the second lens means being configured to focus the parallel light received on a core of an optical fiber, and including a recess for accommodating the optical fiber.
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