Håkan Elderstig

24-GHz modulation bandwidth and passive alignment of flip-chip mounted DFB laser diodes

High-frequency lasers have been flip-chip mounted on silicon motherboards. Small-signal modulation bandwidths around 24 GHz were obtained. It was shown that the bandwidth was not limited by extrinsic parasitics associated with the mounting scheme. Lasers were passively aligned to single mode fibers in V-grooves with the self-aligning solder bump technique. By passive alignment 50% of maximum coupling efficiency obtained by active alignment was achieved.

Polymeric MST - high precision at low cost

A low-cost production process for fabrication of polymeric microstructures from micromachined silicon is demonstrated in a splice for the splicing of optical fibers and an optical motherboard. Measurements on splices showed less than 0.5 dB insertion losses. The prototype polymeric motherboard concisted of an optical receiver module. The detector that was mounted on the polymeric optical motherboard detected about 70% of the transferred light. Measurements with modulated light indicates an optical bandwidth of 5 GHz at 2 V reverse current on the pin-diode.