Electro-opto mechanical assembly for coupling a light source or reciever to an optical waveguide

US6421474B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Picolight Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Jack L. Jewell · Boulder, US
• Stanley E. Swirhun · Boulder, US
• Mikhail Kaluzhny · Boulder, US
• Andrew Moore · Williamsburg, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 2, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 16, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 2, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/4292
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A novel electro-opto-mechanical assembly is provided. The electro-opto-mechanical assembly comprising: a first wafer, the wafer having a top and bottom surface; at least one optical element disposed on one surface of the first wafer; at least one discrete opto-electronic transducer element disposed on the bottom surface of the first wafer and in optical communication with the optical element; and an optical waveguide; wherein the first wafer and the optical element form an optical relay which relays light between the discrete opto-electronic transducer and the optical waveguide and thereby forms an efficient optical coupling between the discrete opto-electronic transducer and the optical waveguide.