Patent 10295852 was granted and assigned to Fujikura on May, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical device includes a window glass plate with which a window of a lid section is provided and which is connected to the lid section via a solder layer so that an internal space of the optical device is hermetically sealed. The solder layer has a void which is isolated from an external space and an internal space of the optical device.