Arrangement for converting optical signals into electrical signals and method of producing the arrangement

US5987202A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Gruenwald · Gerlingen, DE
• Gerhard Benz · Eppelheim, DE
• Klaus Mayer · Prien am Chiemsee, DE
• Annette Seibold · Rutesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 1997
• Grant date: Nov 16, 1999
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3696
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Proposed is a method for producing an arrangement for converting optical signals into electrical signals, the arrangement comprising a substrate having structures for guiding an optical fiber and for deflecting light transmitted by way of the optical fiber. The structures (11, 12, 13) on the substrate (10) are created through the production of a mold of the contour of a molding tool. A ceramic base material is advisably used as the starting material for the substrate (10). The molding is effected through pressing, injection pressing, slip casting, injection molding or reaction casting.