Intel Corporation

Victor M Alvarez

Paul N Ludwig

John E Sell

Steven R Vandervoort

Scott K Buttars

Shijiang He

Ronald L Strijek

A cover for a socket that is to be soldered to a printed circuit board is described. The socket has connections to be soldered to the printed circuit board and connections to contact a die that will be carried by the socket. The socket includes a top surface to cover the die contacts of the socket and side walls surrounding the top surface and extending toward the socket to separate the top surface from the die contacts. The top surface has a plurality of inlet vents, and the side walls have a plurality of outlet vents.

Socket cover with heat flow for surface mount solder reflow

An external cavity laser in a hermetically sealed container and methods for hermetically sealing the external cavity laser. The external cavity laser may be tunable by various mechanisms to allow transmission at multiple selectable wavelength channels.

Hermetically sealed external cavity laser system and method

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Victor M Alvarez