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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/26 (2006.01); G02B 6/38 (2006.01); G02B 6/30 (2006.01); G02B 6/255 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); G02B 6/02 (2006.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/262 (2013.01); G02B 6/2552 (2013.01); G02B 6/30 (2013.01); G02B 6/3829 (2013.01); G02B 6/3885 (2013.01); G02B 6/02042 (2013.01); G02B 6/421 (2013.01); G02B 6/4214 (2013.01); G02B 2006/12107 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an optical coupling element to optically couple optical elements of different kinds to each other, which is provided with a plurality of cores. In the optical coupling element a first end and a second end opposed thereto are different in at least either of a core array and a core interval. The optical coupling element has a bent shape of at least a part of the optical coupling element itself including the cores, so that a light input/output direction at the first end is different from a light input/output direction at the second end.