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US 5,315,609 AGranted
Semiconductor laser module with lens holder compensating for thermal stress
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsTsuyoshi Tanaka, Satoshi Aoki, Kazuyuki Fukuda
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AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsTsuyoshi Tanaka, Satoshi Aoki, Kazuyuki Fukuda
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A semiconductor laser module is provided by silver soldering the holder part of Kovar to the package of Kovar, and then silver soldering the lens holder part of pure iron or a stainless steel to the holder part. The lens holder part has the convergent rod lens fixedly soldered thereto by an Au/Sn solder of a high melting point of 280.degree. C. The semiconductor laser is fixedly soldered onto a stem, with the stem, the optical fiber and ferrule holder being fixedly soldered at positions so that the light emitted from the semiconductor laser is converged by the convergent rod lens at the light incidence end of the optical fiber and the laser light is coupled to the optical fiber. Thus, the convergent rod lens can be fixed with high-melting-point joining means, and a semiconductor laser module for optical communications in which the deterioration of light connection repeatedly generated by heat stress is suppressed can be obtained.
A semiconductor laser module formed by fixing to a package a holding member for holding a rod lens for converging a laser light from a semiconductor laser, and coupling said laser light to an optical fiber, wherein said holding member is formed in a two-piece structure including a holder part formed as a first material and fixedly soldered to said package and a lens holder part formed of a second material different from said first material, said lens holder part being fixedly soldered to one inner end face of said holder part within said package, an opposite other end face of said holder part having said optical fiber passing therethrough, wherein said second material of said lens holder part has a thermal expansion coefficient near a thermal expansion coefficient of said lens, and wherein said lens holder part is fixedly soldered to said rod lens with a high-melting-point solder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.