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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert W Roff, Westfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 33 ; 385 31 ; 385 52 ; 385 76 ; 385 77 ; 385 88 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a lensed fiber assembly having disposed therein an optical fiber, canted at an angle to the axis of light propagation, so as to adequately reduce back reflection of light into an optically active device coupled to the optical fiber. The design of the present invention enables quick and accurate alignment of the optical fiber with the active optical device by movement of the lensed fiber assembly either on axis with and/or orthogonal to the axis of light propagation.