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|United States Patent||5,155,786|
|Ecker , et al.||October 13, 1992|
The present invention relates generally to a new interface and a method for making the same, and more particularly, to an optical fiber interface and a method for making the same. On a substrate having semiconductors, a receiver/transmitter connection is provided to interface with an optical fiber. Integral means for the fiber alignment, support and transit through a sealed environment is also provided. The substrate having the receiver/transmitter secured to it with the optical fiber end, is then enclosed in a housing.
|Inventors:||Ecker; Mario E. (Poughkeepsie, NY), Jacobowitz; Lawrence (Poughkeepsie, NY)|
International Business Machines Corporation
|Filed:||April 29, 1991|
|Current U.S. Class:||385/94 ; 257/713; 257/714; 257/723; 385/49; 385/88; 385/89; 385/92|
|Current International Class:||G02B 6/42 (20060101); G02B 006/30 (); H01L 039/02 ()|
|Field of Search:||350/96.11,96.15,96.17,96.20,96.21,320 250/227.11 357/80,81 385/88,89,91,92,94,130,131,49 156/60,158|
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