Optical transmission member and manufacturing method therefor

摘要

An optical transmission component and a method of making the same in which one or a plurality of optical fibers 1 are fixed to a main body 3 of the optical transmission component with one end face of each optical fiber being exposed, and thus exposed end face is used as a connecting end face to be optically connected to another optical transmission component. The coating 1b of each optical fiber 1 is removed, so as to expose a predetermined length of an optical fiber 1a. An end face 1c of thus exposed optical fiber is processed by spark discharge processing in a short period of time, such that at least the front end of a core portion projects from the front end of its cladding portion. Thus processed optical fiber 1 is inserted into the main body and fixed thereto with an adhesive 5, while a predetermined pressure is being added along the optical axis of each optical fiber 1 from the end face 1c side.