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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2010
Michael Renne Ty Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Huel Pei Kuo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Renne Ty Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Huel Pei Kuo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An optical interconnect includes an optical fiber which terminates in a interconnect body and a micro lens which collimates light exiting the optical fiber to produce a collimated beam. A first personality module is configured operate on the collimated beam; the first personality module being aligned with and detachably connected to the interconnect body. The optical interconnect is configured to be inserted into a socket in an optical backplane, the first personality module being further configured to operate on light passing from the optical backplane into the optical interconnect.