Nec Corporation

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Osamu Ibaragi

Hiroshi Masuda

Kazuhito Saito

Shuji Suzuki

Masao Kinoshita

Kazuhiko Kurata

Junichi Sasaki

Masaki Ohmura

An optical fiber sheet comprises optical fibers sandwiched between sheet members and fixed thereto. Distal ends of the optical fibers extend from outer peripheral edges of the sheet members with resin coatings applied to the distal ends to produce extensions. The distal ends of the extensions are inserted into fiber holes of connectors with the resin coatings applied to the distal ends to be connected with the connectors.

Optical fiber sheet and its manufacturing method

An optical backplane includes an optical connector which receives juxtaposed optical signals transmitted in nonparallel to the main surface of a circuit substrate from the circuit substrate or transmits juxtaposed optical signals in nonparallel to the main surface of the circuit substrate to the circuit substrate. The optical connector disposes and accommodates edge portions of a plurality of optical fibers and the disposing direction of the optical fibers in the optical connector is in nonparallel to the main surface of the circuit substrate.

Optical connection structure of optical backplane to circuit substrate

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Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Ibaragi