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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2016
Ccs Technology, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Michael de Jong, Colleyville, TX (US);
Davide Domenico Fortusini, Ithaca, NY (US);
Andreas Matiss, Berlin, DE;
Martin Spreemann, Berlin, DE;
Eric Stephan ten Have, Berlin, DE;
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
The application provides methods of forming a fiber coupling device comprising a substrate, the substrate having a substrate surface and at least one optoelectronic and/or photonic element, and further comprising at least one fiber coupling alignment structure that is optically transmissive. One method comprises a) applying a polymerizable material to the substrate surface, b) selectively polymerizing, using a method of 3D lithography, a region of the polymerizable material so as to convert the region of the polymerizable material into a polymer material, thereby forming at least one fiber coupling alignment structure, and c) cleaning the substrate and the polymer material from remaining non-polymerized polymerizable material, thereby exposing the at least one fiber coupling alignment structure of the fiber coupling device.