Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

James C Brown, Jr

Nang T Tran

James M DePuydt

William C Tait

John C Dahlquist

Sarat K Mohapatra

Thomas J Staiger

Meredith J Williams

A multi-module radiation detecting device, a radiation detecting module for incorporation in a multi-module radiation detecting device, and a method for assembling a multi-module radiation detecting device are provided. The radiation detecting module includes a carrier substrate and a radiation detecting tile mounted over the carrier substrate. The module includes interconnection structure for connecting radiation detecting elements in the radiation detecting tile to conductive contacts on a base substrate. The module facilitates attachment and detachment of the module relative to the base substrate and relative to a test fixture used in test and burn-in operations. The module is constructed to isolate the radiation detecting tile from thermal and/or mechanical stresses produced at the interconnection interface during attachment and detachment for test and burn-in, assembly, and rework operations. As a result, the module can be used to produce a multi-module radiation detecting device having enhanced reliability. The module can help maintain device reliability despite rework operations, and can thereby reduce rework costs.

Multi-module radiation detecting device and fabrication method

A multi-branch digital optical switch having three branch waveguides through which light may exit. The multi-branch digital optical switch includes a main waveguide, two side branch waveguides, and one center branch waveguide. The two side branch waveguides diverge symmetrically from the center branch waveguide at angles which are sufficiently small to allow modal evolution through the switch to be substantially adiabatic. Electric fields are used to raise the index of refraction of one side branch waveguide above the index of the center branch waveguide and to lower the index of refraction of the other side branch below the index of the center branch waveguide. The switch has an extinction ratio of 700:1 (28 dB) between its two side branches.

Multi-branch digital optical switch

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Brooklyn Center, MN, United States of America

James C Brown, Jr