Optical fiber connector coupling and package for optically interconnected chips

Abstract

An apparatus including an optical fiber connector module and an integrated optical device. The optical fiber connection module including an array of holes there-through for holding end segments of optical fibers therein such that the end of each of the optical fibers has a fixed distance relationship with an external surface of the module, the module having one or more electrical conductor lines therein with electrical contacts thereto along the external surface and having one or more first mechanical alignment structures along the external surface. The integrated optical device having one or more second mechanical alignment structures along an outer surface thereof, the first and second mechanical alignment structures capable of being fitted together such that the outer surface and external surface have a fixed relative positional relationship and such that the electrical contacts of the optical fiber connector module are adjacent to electrical contacts of the integrated optical device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.