Optical cable with integrated electrical connector

摘要

A connection cable includes an optical cable (11) and an integrated electrical connector (101) permanently fixed to the optical cable (11). The integrated electrical connector (101) is for plug-in connection to a matching electrical connector (32) on a target device (30). The optical cable may consist of one or more optical fibres. Printed circuit board 15, transmit optical assembly 14 with semiconductor laser, semiconductor photodetector 16 and edgecard connectors 21 are shown.