Flip chip packaging of digital silicon photonics MEMS Switch for cloud computing and data centre
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2017-06
Authors
Hwang, How Yuan
Lee, Jun Su
Seok, Tae Joon
Forencich, Alex
Grant, Hannah R.
Knutson, Dylan
Quack, Niels
Han, Sangyoon
Muller, Richard S.
Papen, George C.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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We report on the flip chip packaging of Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS)-based digital silicon photonic switching device and the characterization results of 12 × 12 switching ports. The challenges in packaging N2 electrical and 2N optical interconnections are addressed with single-layer electrical redistribution lines of 25 µm line width and space on aluminum nitride interposer and 13° polished 64-channel lidless fiber array (FA) with a pitch of 127 µm. 50 µm diameter solder spheres are laser-jetted onto the electrical bond pads surrounded by suspended MEMS actuators on the device before fluxless flip-chip bonding. A lidless FA is finally coupled near-vertically onto the device gratings using a 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) alignment system. Fiber-to-grating coupler loss of 4.25 dB/facet, 10–11 bit error rate (BER) through the longest optical path, and 0.4 µs switch reconfiguration time have been demonstrated using 10 Gb/s Ethernet data stream.
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Micromechanical devices , Optical fibers , Optical switches , Switching circuits , Flip chip , Interposer , Micro-electro-mechanical system , MEMS , Packaging , Silicon photonics
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Hwang, H. Y., Lee, J. S., Seok, T. J., Forencich, A., Grant, H. R., Knutson, D., Quack, N., Han, S., Muller, R. S., Papen, G. C., Wu, M. C., O'Brien, P. (2017) 'Flip chip packaging of digital silicon photonics MEMS Switch for cloud computing and data centre', IEEE Photonics Journal, 9(3), 2900210 (10pp). doi: 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2704097