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patent · US7421159

Integral pre-aligned micro-optical systems

2 September 2008

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

An accurate and inexpensive integral micro-optical system for coupling and aligning optical fibers with other optical components, such as other optical fibers, diffusers, beam shapers, beam splitters, mirrors, or lenses is disclosed. The micro-optical coupler disclosed comprises one or more fiberport collimators and one or more microlens arrays, optically aligned during fabrication so that an optical fiber, or other source of light, was coupled to another optical fiber, or ot...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2006-12-08
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2008-09-02
Inventors
Ren Yang; Steven Soper; Wanjun Wang; Louisiana State University