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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
May. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald E. Gerber, Richfield, MN (US);
Shubhagat Gangopadhyay, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Assignee:
ADC Telecommunications, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/32 ;
Abstract
A fiber collimator device includes polarization controlling optics to simplify the manufacture of fiber collimators that use polarization maintaining fiber. In particular, the use of the polarization control optics in a fiber collimator reduces the need to align the polarization axis of the polarization maintaining fiber, thus reducing the time spent on fabricating the device. This is useful where the collimation device includes a polarization mode combiner.