Laser microwelding for fiber-chip coupling modules with tapered standard monomode fiber ends for optical communication systems

Ulrich H.P. Fischer; O. Krips; E. Mueller; A. Jacob

doi:10.1117/1.1517577

1 December 2002 Laser micro welding for fiber-chip coupling modules with tapered standard monomofe fiber ends for optical communication systems

Ulrich H.P. Fischer, O. Krips, E. Mueller, A. Jacob

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 12, (December 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1517577

We design a laser welding machine for fabricating butterfly (BFY) modules with an optical coupling setup that is well suited for rapid prototyping and small-scale production of InP and GaAs-based waveguide-fed photonic components such as diode lasers, semiconductor amplifiers, optical modulators, and optoelectrical ICs (OEICs). The light of these devices is transferred very efficiently into single-mode fibers using integrated tapered lensed ends. In our setup the mechanical adjustment of the fiber-chip coupling is done semiautomatically by a newly designed coupling machine while laser welding performs the fixing of the fiber-chip connection. We found a yield of 47% within a shift of 1.0 μm at the initial welding spot. With additional weld adjustment, it was possible to extend the yield of 67%. We introduce, to our knowledge for the first time, an adjustable welding technique, which we call "strain-reducing" welding, which has several benefits in comparison to the well-known "laser hammering" technique.

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Ulrich H.P. Fischer, O. Krips, E. Mueller, and A. Jacob "Laser micro welding for fiber-chip coupling modules with tapered standard monomofe fiber ends for optical communication systems," Optical Engineering 41(12), (1 December 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1517577

Published: 1 December 2002

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