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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
May. 15, 2001
William J. Hamilton, Jr., Ventura, CA (US);
Paul R. Norton, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Eli E. Gordon, Goleta, CA (US);
Ronald W. Berry, Goleta, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
An integrated optical device array structure has a plurality of interconnected solid state microelectronic optical device elements associated together on a substrate structure. The optical device elements may be optical detectors or optical emitters. Each optical device element lies on a nonplanar optical array surface. Each optical device element includes an opto-electronic device that interconverts an optical signal and an opto-electronic device electrical signal, and an electrical interface circuit that is in electrical communication with the opto-electronic device electrical signal. The optical device array structure may be fabricated by preparing a flat array of optical device elements and deforming the flat array into the required shape.