Patent 7308206 was granted and assigned to Finisar on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical transceiver has a housing, a circuit board, an optical subassembly and a heat wick. The circuit board is configured to be received within the housing. The optical subassembly has a can and a barrel, and the optical subassembly is mechanically supported on the housing and electrically coupled to the circuit board. The heat wick is thermally coupled between the can of the optical assembly and the housing.