Abstract: To provide an optical module with optical elements having a collimator and filter functions arranged on the same substrate, and reducing a complicated alignment and obtaining an excellent optical coupling while securing actually sufficient amount of reflection attenuation. A plurality of wavelength selective filters 71 to 74 with different selective wavelengths are disposed on a substrate 50, so that reflected light reflected by a filter is sequentially made incident, and fiber collimators 101 to 106 combined of an optical fiber terminal with a coreless fiber attached to its tip end and a lens are disposed on an optical path of incident light made incident to a filter on the uppermost stream side, on an optical path of transmitted light transmitted through each filter, and on an optical path of reflected light by a filter on the lowermost stream side.

Abstract: An optical switch easy to adjust optical parts without using a catoptric system and an optical add/drop multiplexer using the optical switch are provided. Between an input light outputting collimator device 20 and an output light inputting collimator device 21 provided to face each other at a predetermined spaced interval, a drop light inputting collimator device 22 and an add light outputting collimator device 23 fixed and held on a movable holding member 24a in common are moved forward and retreated, and thereby a switching is conducted.

Abstract: A collimator 111 for an input light, a collimator 112 for an output light, a collimator 113 for a branched light, a collimator 114 for an inserted light and a wavelength selecting filter 115 are provided on a common substrate 130, and mirrors 121 to 124 for correcting an optical path or prisms XXXX to XXXX capable of producing the same advantages are provided on the optical paths between the collimators 111 to 114 and the wavelength selecting filter 115 respectively. By adjusting the mirrors or prisms, the shift of the optical axis between the collimators is corrected.

Abstract: An optical switch easy to adjust optical parts without using a catoptric system and an optical add/drop multiplexer using the optical switch are provided. Between an input light outputting collimator device 20 and an output light inputting collimator device 21 provided to face each other at a predetermined spaced interval, a drop light inputting collimator device 22 and an add light outputting collimator device 23 fixed and held on a movable holding member 24a in common are moved forward and retreated, and thereby a switching is conducted.

Abstract: As a wavelength selection filter, a filter in which dielectric multilayered films are formed on a substrate, an optical fiber grating in which diffraction grating is formed in an optical fiber, and so on, can be used. As another optical demultiplexer 33, as described in Japanese Patent No. 2599876, an arrayed optical waveguide diffraction grating which forms plural optical waveguides having different length of optical paths on the substrate to demultiplex the multiple wavelength light to the respective wavelengths can be used.

Abstract: An optical switch easy to adjust optical parts without using a catoptric system and an optical add/drop multiplexer using the optical switch are provided. Between an input light outputting collimator device 20 and an output light inputting collimator device 21 provided to face each other at a predetermined spaced interval, a drop light inputting collimator device 22 and an add light outputting collimator device 23 fixed and held on a movable holding member 24a in common are moved forward and retreated, and thereby a switching is conducted.

Abstract: There are disclosed an optical filtering module and various optical devices using the filtering module. The optical filtering module has an optical filter for transmitting, attenuating or reflecting light having a certain wavelength range, a first optical system having an optical fiber for guiding light to be transferred to the optical filter, a second optical system having an optical fiber for guiding light transferred from the optical filter, the second optical system being opposingly arranged to the first optical system while interposing the optical filter therebetween and an outer cylindrically shaped glass holder for holding therein the optical filter, the first optical system and the second optical system secured thereto.

Abstract: A collimator 111 for an input light, a collimator 112 for an output light, a collimator 113 for a branched light, a collimator 114 for an inserted light and a wavelength selecting filter 115 are provided on a common substrate 130, and mirrors 121 to 124 for correcting an optical path or prisms XXXX to XXXX capable of producing the same advantages are provided on the optical paths between the collimators 111 to 114 and the wavelength selecting filter 115 respectively. By adjusting the mirrors or prisms, the shift of the optical axis between the collimators is corrected.

Abstract: (1) Alignment mark transfer portion(s) is/are formed on the transfer molding surface of a mold that is used for press-molding a optical element fixing member and having alignment marks; (2) alignment mark(s) is/are formed on the mold material by dry-etching, and the mold material is worked using the alignment mark(s) as a reference to form the transfer molding surface constituted by a plurality of transfer patterns, in order to obtain a mold for press-molding; and (3) the transfer patterns are formed by dry-etching, or a transfer molding bare surface for transfer patterns is formed by dry-etching and a mold release film is formed thereon to reflect the shape of the transfer molding base surface, in order to obtain a mold for press-molding.

Abstract: A groove portion to stay the adhesive agent penetrated into either one of closely contacted surfaces of the rod lens and the optical filter is formed, thereby, the penetration of the adhesive agent into the optical path is prevented.

Abstract: The lateral V-shaped groove (2) and the longitudinal V-shaped groove (3), which cross each other, are formed on a surface of the substrate (1). When the optical element (100) is contacted with and supported by four ridges composed of sides (21, 22) of one V-shaped groove and sides (31, 32) of the other V-shaped groove, the optical element is positioned at the three-dimensional support position which is geometrically determined by the four points at which the four ridges and the surface of the optical element come into contact with each other.

Abstract: There are disclosed an optical filtering module and various optical devices using the filtering module. The optical filtering module has an optical filter for transmitting, attenuating or reflecting light having a certain wavelength range, a first optical system having an optical fiber for guiding light to be transferred to the optical filter, a second optical system having an optical fiber for guiding light transferred from the optical filter, the second optical system being opposingly arranged to the first optical system while interposing the optical filter therebetween and an outer cylindrically shaped glass holder for holding therein the optical filter, the first optical system and the second optical system secured thereto.

Abstract: A groove portion to stay the adhesive agent penetrated into either one of closely contacted surfaces of the rod lens and the optical filter is formed, thereby, the penetration of the adhesive agent into the optical path is prevented.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a glass product not having a rotatively symmetric body like an optical fiber fixing member but having a fine structure as of optical fiber engagement portions, to transfer the fine structure with a high precision without creating molding burrs, includes the steps of placing a glass material in a cavity defined by a lower mold, an upper mold, and a side mold, molding the glass material in the cavity with pressure into the glass product in so controlling that the glass material has a viscosity range of 106.5 to 109.

Abstract: The lateral V-shaped groove 2 and the longitudinal V-shaped groove 3, which cross each other, are formed on a surface of the substrate 1. When the optical element 100 is contacted with and supported by four ridges composed of sides 21, 22 of one V-shaped groove and sides 31, 32 of the other V-shaped groove, the optical element is positioned at the three-dimensional support position which is geometrically determined by the four points at which the four ridges and the surface of the optical element come into contact with each other.

Abstract: An optical fiber fixing member having optical fiber engagement grooves 2 and peaks 5 between the engagement grooves 2 is configured as a unitary structure by molding. A preform G is pressed with a mold 21 such that the concavities 25 of the mold 21, which comprises convexities 26 and concavities 25 for the transfer of the engagement grooves 2 and the peaks 5, respectively, are filled with the preform G only partially. The shape of the convexities 26 of the mold 21 is transferred, yielding optical fiber engagement grooves 2 whose surfaces are mold transfer surfaces 6. Because the preform G fills the concavities 25 only partially, the peaks 5 between the optical fiber engagement grooves formed by the filling of the concavities 25 are free rounded surfaces 7 whose shape does not reflect the shape of the concave bottom portions 25a of the mold 21.

Abstract: The optical fiber fixing member made of glass, especially optical fiber guide block, is conventionally produced by a mechanical processing. However, the mechanical processing has problems that a production cost becomes high and mass-production is difficult. The problems above can be solved by the present invention providing a method for producing an optical fiber fixing member comprising: disposing a glass shaping preform whose plane view resembles to the plane view of the molded article and whose faces to be positioned in the pressurizing direction during press-molding assumes planes or outwardly convex curved surfaces, in a mold having a cavity of a given shape; and heating the glass shaping preform up to a temperature at which the glass shaping preform can be mold-shaping and thereby press-molding it into a molded article having at least one edge formed of a free surface.

Abstract: A preform used for producing an optical fiber fixing member having an optical fiber fixing part and a lower-staged part by a mold shaping method, is formed so as to be composed of a large-thickness portion having an upper surface or a peak portion to which that transfer-shaping surface of transfer-shaping surfaces of a shaping mold which is to shape the said optical fiber fitting portion(s) comes into contact at an initial stage of mold shaping, and a small-thickness portion having an upper surface or a peak portion to which that transfer-shaping surface of transfer-shaping surfaces of the shaping mold which is to shape the upper surface of the lower-staged part comes into contact at an initial stage of the mold shaping, the preform being formed in a configuration in which the said small-thickness portion is adjacent to the large-thickness portion, the form of the preform viewed as a plan view parallels with the form of the said optical fiber fixing member viewed as a plan view and the form of the preform vie

Abstract: (1) Alignment mark transfer portion(s) is/are formed on the transfer molding surface of a mold that is used for press-molding a optical element fixing member and having alignment marks; (2) alignment mark(s) is/are formed on the mold material by dry-etching, and the mold material is worked using the alignment mark(s) as a reference to form the transfer molding surface constituted by a plurality of transfer patterns, in order to obtain a mold for press-molding; and (3) the transfer patterns are formed by dry-etching, or a transfer molding bare surface for transfer patterns is formed by dry-etching and a mold release film is formed thereon to reflect the shape of the transfer molding base surface, in order to obtain a mold for press-molding.

Abstract: In a method for molding glass products having a fine structure as of an optical fiber holder with a high size precision, a mold used for the molding has the fine structure in a size such that a size difference occurring when the glass product is cooled down to a room temperature where at the end of molding with a pressure a size of the fine structure of the mold for glass product and a size of a fine structure of the glass product formed by transfer of the fine structure of the mold are the same as one another is so adjusted that a size of the fine structure of the completed glass product falls within a permissive size precision range. The mold may has a size satisfying, as a size of a fine structure at a room temperature, a formula [1+(.alpha.g-.alpha.m).times..DELTA.T+.alpha.g'.times..DELTA.T'].times.Sg, wherein Sg denotes a size of a fine structure of thc glass product at the room temperature; .alpha.