Patent ID: 7413355

Claim:
A single-fiber two-way optical communication module comprising: a light emitting module including a light emitting device for emitting light, a light-emission-side lens for refracting outgoing light emitted from the light emitting device to parallel rays, a heat sink having thereon the light emitting device, for dissipating heat from the light emitting device, and a stem having a column-shaped holding part which extends in a direction parallel with an outgoing direction of the light emitting device, and holding the light-emission-side lens and the heat sink on a side face of the holding part; an optical fiber holding sleeve for holding an optical fiber whose incident/outgoing end face is disposed in a predetermined position; an optical-fiber-side lens for refracting light emitted from the predetermined position to parallel rays in a predetermined optical path and condensing the parallel rays entered from the predetermined optical path to the predetermined position; at least one optical filter disposed on the predetermined optical path, for splitting the parallel rays in the predetermined optical path or coupling the parallel rays in an optical path crossing the predetermined optical path to the predetermined optical path; at least one light-reception-side lens for condensing the parallel rays to a predetermined focal point; at least one light receiving module including a light receiving device for receiving the light condensed to the predetermined focal point; at least one light receiving module holding ring for holding the light receiving module; at least one light receiving module holding sleeve for holding the light receiving module holding ring on the inside of a cylinder having a center axis almost parallel with the optical axis of the light-reception-side lens and making a light receiving surface of the light receiving device and the predetermined focal point coincide with each other; and a casing for holding the optical fiber holding sleeve, the optical-fiber-side lens, the optical filter, the light emitting module, and the light-reception-side lens, and holding the light receiving module holding sleeve that is movable on a plane almost perpendicular to the optical axis of the light-reception-side lens, wherein the light emitting module is disposed on the predetermined optical path or an optical path where the emitting light from the light emitting device is directed to the optical-fiber-side lens by the optical filter so that an outgoing direction of the light emitting device is set toward the optical filter, and the light receiving module is disposed on the predetermined optical path or an optical path refracted from parallel rays in the predetermined optical path by the optical filter so that a direction from the predetermined focal point to an optical center of the light-reception-side lens is set toward the optical filter.