Patent ID: 9557499
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G02B,H04B

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a transmitter that is configured to emit modulated light upon which data is encoded; one or more focusing lenses that are configured to focus the modulated light into one or more optical fiber ferrules; a lens holder sub-assembly that couples the one or more focusing lenses to the one or more optical fiber ferrules; a computing device coupled to one or more actuators configured to adjust the lens holder sub-assembly and coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to perform active alignment on the lens holder sub-assembly by at least: wherein, after the active alignment is complete, each focusing lens of the one or more focusing lenses is laterally misaligned with respect to an optical fiber ferrule of the one or more optical fiber ferrules that corresponds to the focusing lens, wherein the modulated light from the transmitter is divergent upon reaching the one or more focusing lenses, wherein the lens holder sub-assembly is a lateral distance from the transmitter such that the modulated light from the transmitter passes through the lens holder sub-assembly even though the one or more focusing lenses are laterally misaligned with the one or more optical fiber ferrules.