Abstract: A USB drive mass storage device mainly includes a housing having a predetermined size, in which an optical fingerprint identification system is mounted for use with the USB drive. A printed circuit board (PCB) is located on an inner bottom of the housing with a universal serial bus (USB) plug projected from a front end of the housing. The optical fingerprint identification system includes an image sensing element and an optical prism located across front and rear ends, respectively, of the PCB, so that a space above the PCB provides an optical path for the optical fingerprint identification system. The housing is provided at a rear end with a pivotally connected rear cover to enable easy protection of and access to a fingerprint surface on the optical prism.

Abstract: An optical image device, having a lens module, an IR cut coating and an image sensor. The lens module has a molded glass aspheric lens and aspheric lens. The molded glass aspheric lens is disposed at one end near an object of which the image is to be captured, the IR cut coating is formed on the molded glass aspheric lens, and the image sensor is located behind the lens module to capture the image of the object. In addition to the lens module, the IR cut coating and the image sensor, the optical image device may further include a protective glass disposed on the image sensor.

Abstract: In measuring and assembling a transceiver optical sub-assembly that includes a one-piece or two-piece housing having two opposite apertures separately for an optical fiber and a functional element to assemble thereto, and a lens located between the fiber and the functional element, an image sensor is aligned with the fiber aperture to set a focus on a fiber coupling plane in the housing, and a light spot presented on the fiber coupling plane by a laser beam emitted from the functional element through the lens, or an image of a light-emitting area or a receiving area of the functional element presented on the fiber coupling plane via the lens, is measured to adjust size and/or position thereof, so as to precisely align and fix the functional element to the housing.

Abstract: An optical image pick-up lens is formed from crescent-shaped first and second lenses that may be aspherical molded glass lenses or aspherical plastic lenses. A convex surface at a first side of the first lens faces toward an object, and a convex surface at a second side of the second lens faces toward a formed image. The lens enables reduced lens length and high resolution by satisfying the following relational expressions: 0.4f≦d<0.9f; 0.5f≦|R3|≦100f; and 0.01<|f2|/|f1|<0.9; where, f is an overall focal length of the lens; d is a distance from the first side of the first lens to the second side of the second lens; R3 is a radius of curvature of an object side of the second lens; f1 is a focal length of the first lens; and f2 is a focal length of the second lens.

Abstract: An optical image pick-up lens is formed from crescent-shaped first and second lenses that may be aspherical molded glass lenses or aspherical plastic lenses. A convex surface at a first side of the first lens faces toward an object, and a convex surface at a second side of the second lens faces toward a formed image. The lens enables reduced lens length and high resolution by satisfying the following relational expressions: 0.4f≦d<0.9f; 0.5f≦|R3|≦100f; and 0.01<|f2|/|f1|<0.9; where, f is an overall focal length of the lens; d is a distance from the first side of the first lens to the second side of the second lens; R3 is a radius of curvature of an object side of the second lens; f1 is a focal length of the first lens; and f2 is a focal length of the second lens.

Abstract: A fiber collimator includes a holder having a spacer provided therein, an aspherical lens, and a fiber pigtail. The spacer has a design thickness taking a machining tolerance thereof into consideration to be equal to or larger than an effective focal length of the aspherical lens, with a difference thereof no more than 30 &mgr;m. The fiber pigtail and the aspherical lens are separately inserted into two ends of the holder to abut against and fix to two end surfaces of the spacer. Since the spacer has a thickness varies with changes in its machining tolerance, a focus-out distance &Dgr;d of the fiber tip always randomly falls in a fixed range, for example, from 30 &mgr;m≧&Dgr;d≧0, and the finished fiber collimator always has an optimal working distance within an enlarged range from 0 to 140 mm. A method for manufacturing the fiber collimator is also described.

Abstract: A structure facilitating easy assembly of fiber-optic communication components includes a lower and an upper support being provided with small and big V-shaped cuts, respectively, for receiving optical fibers and collimators, respectively. The upper support is inverted to seat on a middle recess of the lower support, such that tangent planes passing top points of the optical fibers and the collimators are contained in horizontal planes passing openings of the small and the big V-shaped cuts, respectively, and axes of the collimators are either in alignment with or horizontally coplanar with axes of the optical fibers. The two supports together define a central positioning cavity between them for receiving different function elements, such as optical isolator, modularized filter, etc., between the collimators, so that fiber-optic communication components with reduced volume and increased reliability could be easily assembled in mass production at reduced cost.

Abstract: A structure facilitating easy assembly of fiber-optic communication components includes a lower and an upper support being provided with small and big V-shaped cuts, respectively, for receiving optical fibers and collimators, respectively. The upper support is inverted to seat on a middle recess of the lower support, such that tangent planes passing top points of the optical fibers and the collimators are contained in horizontal planes passing openings of the small and the big V-shaped cuts, respectively, and axes of the collimators are either in alignment with or horizontally coplanar with axes of the optical fibers. The two supports together define a central positioning cavity between them for receiving different function elements, such as optical isolator, modularized filter, etc., between the collimators, so that fiber-optic communication components with reduced volume and increased reliability could be easily assembled in mass production at reduced cost.