A method of producing an optical connection component in which a surrounding of a plurality of bent glass fibers is integrally coated with resin. The method includes a step of preparing upper and lower molds for molding around a fiber array in which the plurality of glass fibers are arranged in a specified arrangement direction. The molds have two walls spaced apart from each other by a larger distance than the width of the fiber array. The method also includes a step of providing around the fiber array the molds such that each of the walls is disposed outside a corresponding one of two glass fibers that are included in the plurality of glass fibers and that are located at respective sides of the fiber array. The method also includes a step of supplying the resin into the molds.

Provided is a method for manufacturing an optical receptacle with which the occurrence of bending of a guide pin hole can be suppressed. The method for manufacturing an optical receptacle of the present invention includes an injection step of injecting a resin through a resin injection port of a mold into a cavity of the mold, and a solidification step of solidifying the resin in the cavity of the mold. The cavity of the mold has a protruding portion for forming a recessed portion in a main body of an optical receptacle, a pair of pins for forming a pair of guide pin holes in the main body of the optical receptacle, and a pair of pin-retaining portions. In the injection step, the mold during the injection of the resin is in a state in which the pair of pins are respectively disposed on two end sides of the protruding portion, the resin injection port is disposed so that the resin flows from one end side of the pair of pins toward opposing faces of the pins that oppose each other, one of the pin-retaining portions is disposed in contact with a side of a corresponding one of the pins that is opposite to the opposing face thereof, and the other of the pin-retaining portions is disposed in contact with a side of the other of the pins that is opposite to the opposing face thereof.

A freeform DOE for use in an optical transmitter and a method of designing and manufacturing the DOE are provided. The freeform DOE is capable of achieving the same, or nearly the same, functionality as that of a glass DOE, but has a design that has been transformed to make the surface profile of the DOE compatible with a molding process that can be used to manufacture the DOE with high quality at low costs. The method of designing and manufacturing the DOE includes preselecting a CGH that will obtain a target freeform DOE design, using a preselected smoothing function to smooth the surface profile of the target freeform DOE design to transform the design into a DOE design that is compatible with a molding process, and using a fabrication process to manufacture a freeform DOE that is based on the transformed DOE design.

Advanced computing applications have evolved to include servers submersed in dielectric oils to provide efficient cooling. Transceiver-fiber optic cable interface assemblies that support data communications may not be sealed adequately to be submersed, and require sealing before they can be used in such applications. A mold may be three dimensionally (3D) printed or additively manufactured (AM) and used to form a sealing material around the assembly to provide such protection.

A freeform DOE for use in an optical transmitter and a method of designing and manufacturing the DOE are provided. The freeform DOE is capable of achieving the same, or nearly the same, functionality as that of a glass DOE, but has a design that has been transformed to make the surface profile of the DOE compatible with a molding process that can be used to manufacture the DOE with high quality at low costs. The method of designing and manufacturing the DOE includes preselecting a CGH that will obtain a target freeform DOE design, using a preselected smoothing function to smooth the surface profile of the target freeform DOE design to transform the design into a DOE design that is compatible with a molding process, and using a fabrication process to manufacture a freeform DOE that is based on the transformed DOE design.

A method of preparing an optical connector located within a gap between a first optical assembly and a second optical assembly is provided. The optical connector includes a contrast layer having at least one cured bridge portion and at least one uncured portion formed from a first composition having a first refractive index (RI.sup.1). The method comprises applying a second composition having a second refractive index (RI.sup.2) on the contrast layer to form a second layer and mixing at least a portion of the second layer with the at least one uncured portion of the contrast layer to form at least one intermixed portion having a third refractive index (RI.sup.3), wherein R|.sup.1>R|.sup.3>RI.sup.2, and then curing the intermixed portion and optional second layer such that each one of the at least one cured bridge portions is surrounded by an intermixed portion and optional second layer.

A system forms, at an end of a multifiber ribbon cable, a multifiber ribbon cable segment having an enlarged core-to-core spacing. A UV-transparent mold is mounted on top of a chassis. The mold defines a plurality of individual fiber channels corresponding to individual fibers of the existing multifiber ribbon cable and having a spacing equal to that of the enlarged core-to-core spacing. Each individual fiber channel passes through the internal cavity. The assembled mold further includes an injection system for receiving light curable, flowable material from the reservoir and pumping system and feeding it into the internal cavity, and at least one vent for allowing air to escape from the internal cavity as the light-curable, flowable material is fed into the internal cavity. The injected material is cured by exposure to a curing light.

A fiber optic cable and connector assembly including a fiber optic connector mounted at the end of a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic connector includes a ferrule assembly including a stub fiber supported within a ferrule. The stub fiber is fusion spliced to an optical fiber of the fiber optic cable at a location within the fiber optic connector.

A method of manufacturing an optical connector ferrule includes a step of forming the optical connector ferrule by introducing a resin into a die. The optical connector ferrule includes one end surface and the other end surface, a pair of side surfaces, a front surface and a back surface, an introduction port that introduces a plurality of optical fibers in a bundle, a plurality of optical fiber holding holes that penetrate from the introduction port to the one end surface and hold the plurality of optical fibers, respectively, and a window hole that penetrates from the surface to the introduction port. A distance between a center of a gate and the front surface is less than a distance between the center of the gate and the back surface.

Embodiments described herein relate to methods of fabricating waveguide structures with gratings having front angles less than about 45 and back angles less than about 45. The methods include imprinting stamps into nanoimprint resists disposed on substrates. The nanoimprint resists are subjected to a cure process. The stamps are released from the nanoimprint resist at a release angle using a release method. The nanoimprint resists are subjected to an anneal process to form a waveguide structure comprising a plurality of gratings with a front angle and a back angle relative to a second plane of the surface of the substrate less than about 45.