Fujitsu Corporation

Shinichi Takeuchi

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Tamotsu Akashi

Hirofumi Aota

Hiroyuki Furukawa

Nobuhiro Fukushima

Yoshinobu Kubota

Kohei Shibata

Shinji Yamashita

Toshiya Kishida

The invention provides a fiber collimator array including a fiber array in which a plurality of optical fibers is arrayed and a microlens array in which microlenses are arrayed on positions corresponding to the plurality of optical fibers on a transparent substrate. Each microlens and the transparent substrate are oppositely arranged so that a plurality of projections formed on a bottom face of each microlens intersects with a plurality of projections formed on a surface of the transparent substrate, and each microlens and the transparent substrate are adhered to each other by the adhesive.

Fiber collimator array

The micro mirror unit includes a substrate, on which are provided a micro mirror reflecting light, a torsion bar supporting the micro mirror, a frame rotatably supporting the torsion bar, and a deformative supporting part which deforms itself to lift the frame away from the substrate and supports the frame in such a lifted condition. This arrangement makes it possible to realize an increased space between the micro mirror and the substrate, thereby realizing an enlarged mirror tilt angel, without increasing the thickness of the sacrifice layer.

Micro mirror unit and its manufacturing process, and optical switch with the micro mirror unit employed therein

In an optical apparatus according to the present invention, the lens thicknesses and curvature radiuses of respective first lenses are optimized so that beam waist positions of optical beams emitted from the respective first lenses of a lens array are independently changed according to aberration of a second lens, and the focal position deviation due to the aberration of the second lens is cancelled by a difference between the beam waist positions, which is given on the lens array side. As a result, it is possible to suppress, at a low cost, variations in focal positions of the optical beams which are emitted from respective ports of the lens array to be condensed by the common lens.

Optical apparatus using a lens array

Optical component, fiber collimator array and wavelength selective switch

A housingis equipped for supporting, from a side, a platform of a wavelength selection device comprising an input/output porta collimatoran expanding optical systema spectroscopic element, a collecting optical systemand a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) mirror arrayBecause the above noted optical member is supported from the side only, influences of a thermal expansion is limited to the height direction of the optical member and the optical axis direction. By these aspects, the influence of thermal expansion is limited to a two-dimensional from a common three-dimensional, thereby enabling a design of a countermeasure to an influence of a thermal expansion. Also, the support from the side does not create a dead space thereby making the wavelength selection device compact.

Wavelength selection device

A micromirror element is configured such that a mirror body is arranged via a support on a wiring substrate on which a pair of mirror drive electrodes and a light detection unit are arranged. A mirror is constituted of a mirror frame and a movable mirror swayably supported by the mirror frame. A light transmitting hole is formed at the center of the movable mirror. Light passing through the light transmitting hole is detected by the light detection device.

Micromirror element and optical switch

A wavelength selective optical switch of the present invention separates a WDM light emitted from an input port of an input and output optical system, according to wavelengths, by a diffraction grating, and thereafter, condenses the lights of respective wavelengths on MEMS mirrors respectively corresponding to the respective wavelengths, in a mirror array, to reflect them by a condenser optical system, to thereby switch optical paths for the respective lights. The condenser optical system is configured by combining a plurality of lenses whose focal distances are different from each other, and positions in an optical axis direction of the lenses are adjustable by a slide mechanism. Thus, despite an error in the focal distances of the condenser lenses, in a mounting angle of a spectral element or the like, a beam pitch at the condensing positions of the lights of respective wavelengths can be coincident with a mirror pitch in the mirror array.

Wavelength selective optical switch, and optical device provided with spectroscopic function

In an input-output optical system of spatially optical coupled type, a spacer is provided in at least one of input and output optical systems and interposed between a lens array block and a fiber block without blocking an optical path for ensuring a distance corresponding to a focal distance of collimating lenses. As a result, highly-accurate, highly-stable alignment of an optical axis can be readily realized.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Shinichi Takeuchi