MICRO-OPTICAL INTERCONNECT COMPONENT AND ITS METHOD OF FABRICATION

• Main Authors: GHADIMI, Amir Hossein, KRÄHENBÜHL, Roger, LUU-DINH, Angélique
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.12.2022
• Subjects: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS

Disclosed is a micro-optical interconnect component including an optical platform including, arranged onto a substrate, at least one optical alignment structure fixing an optical component and/or arranged as alignment structure to adapt another interconnect component. The optical platform includes a light deflecting element, having a total volume of less than 1 mm3, and made of a material having a refractive index higher than 1. The light deflecting element includes a face, facing the optical alignment structure, and has a curved reflecting surface so that an incident light beam onto the first face is deflected by an angle between 60° and 120°, the incident light beam may be provided from the outside or the inside of the substrate. Also disclosed are optical devices including at least one optical interconnect component and to optical systems including at least one optical device, as well as a batch fabrication process of the optical interconnect component