Finisar Corporation

Andreas Schumacher

Ingo Baumann

Detlef Krabe

Thorsten Spott

Manfred Scheubeck

The invention relates to a method for producing an optical arrangement (), in which an optical component () is optically connected to at least one waveguide () provided on or in a carrier substrate (). In order to enable an optical component to be connected to an optical waveguide of a carrier substrate in a particularly simple and thus cost-effective manner, the invention provides for there to be arranged between the optical component () and the waveguide () an adjustment device () with at least one auxiliary waveguide (), the waveguide ends () of which are in each case movable and an optical adjustment between the optical component () and the waveguide () of the carrier substrate () is effected by a mechanical adjustment of the movable waveguide ends ().

Method for producing an optical arrangement

The invention relates a planar optical circuit having at least one functional layer with structures for guidance, changing, regulation, control, production and/or detection of optical signals, a carrier substrate on which the at least one functional layer is formed, and at least two physically separate functional units which are formed in the at least one functional layer on the carrier substrate. According to the invention, the at least two functional units () are thermally separated from one another by at least one trench structure () in the functional layer () and/or in the carrier substrate ().

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Munich, Germany

Andreas Schumacher