US 12,092,869 B2
Optical connection component and optical connection structure
Kota Shikama, Tokyo (JP); and Atsushi Aratake, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/287,094
Filed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/044283
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/110700, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-221094 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0382231 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/125 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/125 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical connection component comprising:
a monolithic plate-shaped substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface and a first input/output end and a second input/output end directly on and integral with the second surface of the plate-shaped substrate, the plate-shaped substrate being made of a material that is transparent with respect to light to be used, and the plate-shaped substrate being configured to transmit the light to be used from the first surface of the plate-shaped substrate to the first input/output end on the second surface of the plate-shaped substrate; and
a resin optical waveguide comprising a resin core optically connecting the first input/output end to the second input/output end.