Patent ID: 6307197
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A method for calibrating an optoelectronic component, the method which comprises:providing a light emitter unit having a light emitter for transmitting a beam of light along a first direction;providing a connection unit including a first part and a second part, the first part having a deflection mirror, the second part provided for mounting a fiber-optic wave guide and being displaceable toward and away from the deflection mirror relative to the first part;providing an optical element disposed in a beam path between the light emitter and the second part;turning on the light emitter;setting an initial relative position between the first part and the second part;calibrating the first part relative to the light emitter unit, while maintaining the initial relative position between the first part and the second part, by displacing the first part in a structurally predetermined reference plane intersecting the first direction, such that the beam of light strikes the deflection mirror and a deflected beam of light leaves the deflection mirror, the deflected beam of light striking an end face of the fiber-optic wave guide essentially centrally in a second direction extending essentially parallel to the reference plane;fixing a relative position between the first part and the light emitter unit in a first calibrated position;calibrating a the second part relative to the first part by displacing the second part in the second direction relative to the first part such that a given condition with respect to a location of an optical image plane of the optical element relative to a location of the end face of the fiber-optic wave guide is met; andfixing a final relative position between the first part and the second part in a second calibrated position.