Optical connectors and a method of production thereof

US8876408B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• RUPRECHT - KARLS - UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG · DE

Inventors

• Denis Wohlfeld · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Karl-Heinz Brenner · Nuremberg, DE
• Ulrich Brüning · Rothenfels, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing an active optical connection with an optoelectronic element and a light deflection means for light deflection between the optoelectronic element and an optical waveguide arranged transversely with respect to the beam direction of said element. In this case, it is provided that a carrier substrate for the optoelectronic element is arranged in a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, in particular a flip-chip machine, the optoelectronic element is mounted on the substrate by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine and a curable, moldable compound is applied over the optoelectronic element, and the moldable compound is molded by a mold for molding light deflection means, said mold being moved by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, and at the earliest thereafter the substrate is removed from the or a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine.