Opto Power Corporation

Sheng-Hui Yang

Rushikesh M Patel

Steve Marcomber

Robin R Pleak

The screening of edge-emitting laser diode bars in a production line is permitted by fabricating the source electrodes of each diode in the bar in two parts spaced apart to form a window aligned with the lasing cavity of the diode. Such windows have been made in failed devices to determine the cause of failure. Here, the windows are formed in a wafer stage of fabrication for later separation into laser bars or individual laser diodes. All wafers, all laser bars and all laser diodes are fabricated with windows thus permitting automatic screening during fabrication rather than opening a window to examine only failed devices as is the case in the prior art.

Diode laser with screening window and method of fabrication

Square cross section optical fibers are accurately positioned for coupling light from laser diode emitting facets through a fiber lens. The fibers are placed in parallel channels formed in a photolithographic layer on a planar surface of a substrate and constrained in place by a retention plate. The fibers extend beyond the retention plate unrestrained by photoresist but overlying the exposed portion of the planar surface of the substrate. The fibers over the exposed portion are cemented in place and the photoresist layer is then removed leaving the constrained portion of the fibers in very accurately defined positions, and free of epoxy cement, for abutment to the familiar fiber lens.

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Sheng-Hui Yang