Electronic assembly including optical modules

US11443998B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH · CH

Inventors

• Christopher William Blackburn · Bothell, US
• Jeffery Walter Mason · Attleboro, US
• Nathan Lincoln Tracy · Harrisburg, US
• Clarence Leon Yu · Shanghai, CN
• Michael David Herring · Apex, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01L23/4006
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic assembly includes an electronic package including a package substrate and an integrated circuit component mounted to an upper surface. The electronic package includes upper package contacts electrically connected to the integrated circuit component. The electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly including an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces. The interposer assembly defining a separable interface. The electronic assembly includes optical modules coupled to the separable interface of the interposer assembly and having an optical module substrate having module contacts and an optical engine mounted to the optical module substrate electrically connected to the module contacts. The optical module is mounted to the interposer assembly such that the module contacts are electrically connected to the upper mating interfaces of the interposer contacts. Each optical module includes at least one optical fiber terminated to the optical engine.