Patent ID: 6324323
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A method of providing a package of an optical waveguide and optical fibers comprising:disposing an optical waveguide upon a first rigid substrate;providing an arrangement of compressible material layers with optical fibers disposed between the compressible material layers and with the optical fibers disposed within alignment grooves of the substrate, with one of the compressive layers disposed between each fiber and its corresponding groove surface and with an end region of each fiber directed towards the waveguide;sandwiching the arrangement between the first and a second rigid substrates; andthen pressing the substrates towards each other, so as to compress the material layers and force each of the optical fibers in a transverse direction further into its groove to move each fiber into optical alignment with the optical waveguide and retain the optical alignment of each fiber with the optical waveguide.