METHOD TO ALIGN OPTICAL COMPONENTS TO A SUBSTRATE AND OTHER OPTICAL COMPONENTS

摘要

A method and apparatus are provided for aligning an array of optical devices with optical processing equipment. The method includes the steps of providing a transparent substrate (5) with a plurality of optical transmission paths (25) passing directly through the substrate (5), providing a plurality of alignment guides (4,6,22) on the optical array, providing a complementary plurality of respective alignment guides (21) on the transparent substrate and guiding the optical devices of the array into alignment with the substrate using respective pairs of the alignment guides on the optical array and transparent substrate.