Optical couplings having coded magnetic arrays and devices incorporating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9151900-B2
Application number	US-201414315776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2014
Priority date	Dec 7, 2010
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

Optical couplings for making and optical connection between one or more devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical coupling includes a coupling face, an optical interface within the coupling face, an optical component positioned within the optical interface, and at least one coded magnetic array. The at least one coded magnetic array may include a plurality of magnetic regions configured aid in mating the optical component with a corresponding optical component of a complementary mated optical coupling to a predetermined tolerance for optical communication. Optical cable assemblies and electronics devices having optical couplings with optical interfaces using coded magnetic arrays are also disclosed.

First claim

We claim:

1. An optical cable assembly comprising:
a connector housing having a coupling face;
a lens assembly within the connector housing, the lens assembly including an optical interface and a lens component;
an optical fiber comprising a fiber end that is maintained within the lens assembly at a fiber end location; and
at least one coded magnetic array within the coupling face, the at least one coded magnetic array including a plurality of magnetic regions configured for…

Assignees

• Corning Optical Comm Llc

Inventors

• Benjamin Seldon David
• Demeritt Jeffery Alan
• Isenhour Micah Colen
• Knecht Dennis Michael
• Luther James Phillip

Classifications

• G02B6/32 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02B6/26

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02B6/3886

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02B6/4292

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02B6/4204 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic