Low cost packaging of semiconductor laser arrays using passive self-aligned flip-chip technique on Si motherboard
- 23 December 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 05695503,p. 8-12
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ectc.1996.517368
Abstract
A passive self-aligned packaging technique for semiconductor laser arrays has been realized. Alignment trenches on the laser chip are introduced to enable self-alignment to optical fibers during flip-chip mounting on a structured Si motherboard. The use of the etched Si sidewalls for alignment results in a self-positioning effect, reducing device placing precision, and allows larger tolerances in the motherboard processing. Arrays of 4, 8 and 12 lasers have been flip-chip mounted with a coupling efficiency of -3.4/spl plusmn/0.2 dB to cleaved 50/125 /spl mu/m multimode fiber (MMF) ribbons. The excess loss due to the optical mounting process is <0.3 dB. Coupling to lensed MMF's results in 1.3/spl plusmn/0.2 dB coupling loss. The laser characteristics, such as threshold current and efficiency remain unchanged during packaging and show a very low temperature dependence. A characteristic temperature of 170 K in the range of 25/spl deg/C to 75/spl deg/C opens the possibility for applications of these laser modules without active temperature control. Together with the short assembly times of the passive self-alignment, the described technology is very promising for low-cost laser array modules.Keywords
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