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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2019
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Alexander Lee Cuno, Sayre, PA (US);
Oberon Denaci Deichmann, Painted Post, NY (US);
Davide Domenico Fortusini, Painted Post, NY (US);
Wei Jiang, Ithaca, NY (US);
William James Miller, Horseheads, NY (US);
James Scott Sutherland, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
Optical assemblies and lensed connector ferrule assemblies having one or more optical fibers aligned to one or more lenses of a lens substrate and methods of their manufacture are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical assembly includes a ferrule and a mirror surface. The ferrule includes a lens holder having a lens substrate cavity and an engagement surface. The ferrule further includes a lens substrate disposed within the lens substrate cavity. The lens substrate has at least one lens. The mirror surface is coupled to the engagement surface such that the at least one lens is offset from the mirror surface by an offset distance.