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Title: Low-cost laser diode array

Abstract

A substrate is used to fabricate a low-cost laser diode array. A substrate is machined from an electrically insulative material that is thermally conductive, or two substrates can be bonded together in which the top substrate is electrically as well as thermally conductive. The substrate thickness is slightly longer than the cavity length, and the width of the groove is wide enough to contain a bar and spring (which secures the laser bar firmly along one face of the groove). The spring also provides electrical continuity from the backside of the bar to the adjacent metalization layer on the laser bar substrate. Arrays containing one or more bars can be formed by creating many grooves at various spacings. Along the groove, many bars can be adjoined at the edges to provide parallel electrical conduction. This architecture allows precise and predictable registration of an array of laser bars to a self-aligned microlens array at low cost. 19 figs.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6325707
Patent Number(s):
5909458
Application Number:
PPN: US 8-753657
Assignee:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 27 Nov 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FABRICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THICKNESS; DIMENSIONS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; LASERS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOLID STATE LASERS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; 426002* - Engineering- Lasers & Masers- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Freitas, B L, and Skidmore, J A. Low-cost laser diode array. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Freitas, B L, & Skidmore, J A. Low-cost laser diode array. United States.
Freitas, B L, and Skidmore, J A. Tue . "Low-cost laser diode array". United States.
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year = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
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