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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Laurence R. Mccolloch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Laurence R. McColloch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/36 (2006.01); H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H02B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01); G02B 6/43 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4284 (2013.01); G02B 6/423 (2013.01); G02B 6/4246 (2013.01); G02B 6/4249 (2013.01); G02B 6/43 (2013.01); H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical communications card is provided that has multiple parallel optical communications modules mounted on one or both sides of the card. A plurality of the optical communications cards can be edge-mounted and/or mid-plane mounted in an optical communications system such that the cards are electrically connected to a motherboard PCB. Because the spacing, or pitch, between the edge-mounted or mid-plane mounted cards can be very small, the cards can be mounted with very high density to provide the optical communications system with very high bandwidth.