Western Digital (fremont), Inc.

Kittikom Nontprasat

Mark Moravec

Prasertsak Naksakul

Chupong Pakpum

Suwanchai Kongdum

Hathai Panitchakan

A disk drive read head includes a slider. The slider has an air bearing surface, a trailing face, and a mounting face opposite the air bearing surface. The mounting face includes a mounting face recession. An interior surface of the mounting face recession includes an electrically conductive terminal. The read head also includes a magnetic transducer disposed on the trailing face of the slider. The read head also includes a laser device affixed to the electrically conductive terminal by a solder material. The laser device is at least partially recessed into the mounting face recession.

Disk drive magnetic read head with affixed and recessed laser device

A system for providing energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) heads using a substrate is described. The substrate has front and back sides and apertures therein. The apertures are through-holes between the front and back sides of the substrate. The system includes providing a transmission medium in the apertures and fabricating EAMR transducers on the front side of the substrate. The EAMR transducers correspond to the apertures and the EAMR heads. The system also includes electrically insulating the back side of the substrate. The back side of the substrate is also prepared for mounting of the lasers. The lasers then are coupled the back side of the substrate. The lasers correspond to the EAMR heads and are configured to provide light through the apertures to the EAMR transducers. The system also includes separating the substrate into the EAMR heads.

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