Optical collimator array including a spacer for receving a microlens and method of aligning light axes thereof
US5446815A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 10, 1994 |
| Grant date | Aug 29, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 10, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/4234
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An optical collimator array having an optical fiber array for aligning and fixing optical fibers, and a microlens array formed by arranging lenses integrally and connected to the optical fiber array with a predetermined distance, has a spacer for fixing the microlens array connected to said optical fiber array in such a manner that light axes at an end of the optical fibers in the optical fiber array are made coincident with those of said lenses in the microlens array.
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