Passive Self-Aligned, Low Cost Packaging of Semiconductor Laser Arrays on Si Motherboard

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A passive self-aligned packaging technique for semiconductor laser arrays has been realized. Alignment trenches on the laser chip are used for self-alignment during flip-chip mounting on a Silicon motherboard. The use of the etched Si sidewalls for alignment results in a self-positioning effect, reducing the necessary device placing precision, and allows for large tolerances in the motherboard processing, resulting in low packaging costs. A module with 4 lasers and integrated monitor diodes has been pigtailed. Optical mounting excess and differential losses between the channels are $<$0.5 dB.

By: W. Hunziker (ETH, Zurich, Switz.), W. Vogt (ETH, Zurich, Switz.), H. Melchior (ETH, Zurich, Switz.), P. Buchmann and P. Vettiger

Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, volume 7, (no 11), pages 1324-6 in 1995

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