Feedback resistant optical interconnect module

Abstract

An optical system and method for reducing optical feedback into a light source of a transmit channel in an optical interconnect module is disclosed. The optical system reduces optical feedback into the light source by attenuating back reflection, redirecting back reflections, or some combination of attenuation and redirection. The optical interconnect module may include a self-attenuating lens that attenuates back reflections and / or an angled fiber end face that redirects reflections from the end face so that they are not coupled back to the light source. A fiber ferrule that supports the optical fiber may be mated and unmated from the optical interconnect module.

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