An optical fiber array with lenses connected with a plurality of optical fibers
is disclosed, enabling to be manufactured to meet the optical fiber end intervals
to the terminal intervals of an optical device to be connected and having an improved
efficiency in connection operation. The optical fiber array comprises a base plate
having a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface,
a plurality of optical fibers having a tip surface inserted and secured in each
of the holes opened on the base plate, and a plurality of collimator lenses installed
on the second end surface facing the tip surfaces of the optical fiber. Each hole
has a tapered inside wall having a diameter gradually decreasing from an opening
on the first end surface of the base plate toward the second end surface and a
parallel inside wall continuing from the tapered inside wall end. In the hole,
a refraction index matching agent is preferably filled in between the tip surface
of the optical fiber and the collimator lens. The optical fiber array is designed
so as to match the optical axis pitches of the optical fibers and collimator lenses
to the terminal pitches of the optical device to be connected.