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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

I-Lung Ho, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Luohan Peng, Cypress, TX (US);

Kai-Sheng Lin, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Elsie Marentes, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., Sugar Land, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); G02B 6/125 (2006.01); G02B 6/38 (2006.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4246 (2013.01); G02B 6/125 (2013.01); G02B 6/3897 (2013.01); G02B 6/4256 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); G02B 2006/12164 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for flexible coupling between an optical coupling receptacle/port of an optical transceiver housing and optical components within the same are disposed. In an embodiment, an optical transceiver housing includes an intermediate fiber with a first end optically coupled to an optical coupling port and a second end optically coupled to a multiplexer/de-multiplexer device, e.g., an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) device, PLC splitter, and so on. The intermediate fiber may be routed in the transceiver housing in a manner that and the radius of the bends may be optimized to reduce fiber bending losses. The techniques herein are equally applicable to both ROSA and TOSA modules and may be utilized to achieve flexible coupling for multi-channel transceiver devices.


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