CN111694111B - Optical module - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides an optical module, which relates to the field of optical fiber communication and comprises a substrate, a silicon optical chip and a laser box, wherein the bottom surface of the silicon optical chip and the bottom surface of the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, light is emitted from the side surface of the laser box, and the side surface of the silicon optical chip receives the light from the laser box. According to the optical module provided by the embodiment of the invention, the silicon optical chip and the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, and the relative position relationship between the silicon optical chip and the laser box can realize light emitting from the side surface of the laser box and light received from the laser box by the side surface of the silicon optical chip, so that an external light source is provided for the silicon optical chip.

Description

Optical module

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of optical fiber communication, in particular to an optical module.

Background

The realization of the photoelectric conversion function by the silicon optical chip has become a mainstream scheme adopted by the high-speed optical module at present. In the silicon optical module, a silicon optical chip is arranged on the surface of a circuit board and is electrically connected with the circuit board through routing; the silicon optical chip is connected with the optical interface of the optical module through the optical fiber ribbon, and the optical signal can enter and exit the silicon optical chip. Since the silicon material used for the silicon optical chip is not an ideal laser chip light-emitting material and cannot integrate the light-emitting unit in the silicon optical chip manufacturing process, the silicon optical chip needs to be provided with light by an external light source.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an optical module, which provides an external light source for a silicon optical chip in the optical module.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the embodiment of the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

the embodiment of the invention provides an optical module which comprises a substrate, a silicon optical chip and a laser box, wherein the bottom surface of the silicon optical chip and the bottom surface of the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, light is emitted from the side surface of the laser box, and the side surface of the silicon optical chip receives the light from the laser box.

According to the optical module provided by the embodiment of the invention, the silicon optical chip and the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, and the relative position relationship between the silicon optical chip and the laser box can realize the light emission from the side surface of the laser box and the light received from the laser box by the side surface of the silicon optical chip, so that an external light source is provided for the silicon optical chip.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of connection relationship of an optical communication terminal;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an optical network unit;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an optical module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is an exploded schematic view of an optical module structure according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an assembly relationship among a circuit board, a silicon optical chip, and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of another exploded angle structure of the assembly relationship between the silicon optical chip and the laser box according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a structural relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of an optical coupling relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10A is a schematic diagram of an optical path structure of a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10B is a schematic diagram of an optical path structure of another laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is an exploded view of a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Optical communication enables signals to be transmitted using two different carriers, electrical and optical. Optical signals carrying information are transmitted in the optical waveguide for optical fiber communication, and the information transmission with low cost and low loss can be realized by utilizing the passive transmission characteristic of light in the optical waveguide such as the optical fiber; the information processing devices such as computers use electrical signals, which requires the interconversion between electrical signals and optical signals in the optical fiber communication system.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of connection relationship of an optical communication terminal. As shown in fig. 1, the connection of the optical communication terminal mainly includes an optical network unit 100, an optical module 200, an optical fiber 101, and a network cable 103;

one end of the optical fiber is connected with the far-end server, one end of the network cable is connected with the local information processing equipment, and the connection between the local information processing equipment and the far-end server is completed by the connection between the optical fiber and the network cable; and the connection between the optical fiber and the network cable is completed by an optical network unit with an optical module.

An optical port of the optical module 200 is connected with the optical fiber 101 and establishes bidirectional optical signal connection with the optical fiber; the electrical port of the optical module 200 is accessed into the optical network unit 100, and establishes bidirectional electrical signal connection with the optical network unit; the optical module realizes the mutual conversion of optical signals and electric signals, thereby realizing the connection between the optical fiber and the optical network unit; specifically, the optical signal from the optical fiber is converted into an electrical signal by the optical module and then input to the optical network unit 100, and the electrical signal from the optical network unit 100 is converted into an optical signal by the optical module and input to the optical fiber. The optical module 200 is a tool for realizing the mutual conversion of the photoelectric signals, and has no function of processing data, and information is not changed in the photoelectric conversion process.

The optical network unit is provided with an optical module interface 102, which is used for accessing an optical module and establishing bidirectional electric signal connection with the optical module; the optical network unit is provided with a network cable interface 104 for accessing a network cable and establishing bidirectional electric signal connection with the network cable; the optical module is connected with the network cable through the optical network unit, specifically, the optical network unit transmits a signal from the optical module to the network cable and transmits the signal from the network cable to the optical module, and the optical network unit is used as an upper computer of the optical module to monitor the work of the optical module.

At this point, a bidirectional signal transmission channel is established between the remote server and the local information processing device through the optical fiber, the optical module, the optical network unit and the network cable.

Common information processing apparatuses include routers, switches, electronic computers, and the like; the optical network unit is an upper computer of the optical module, provides data signals for the optical module, and receives the data signals from the optical module.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an optical network unit structure. As shown in fig. 2, the optical network unit 100 includes a circuit board 105, and a cage 106 is disposed on a surface of the circuit board 105; an electric connector is arranged in the cage 106 and used for connecting an electric port of an optical module such as a golden finger; the cage 106 is provided with a heat sink 107, and the heat sink 107 has a convex structure such as a fin for increasing a heat radiation area.

The optical module 200 is inserted into an optical network unit, specifically, an electrical port of the optical module is inserted into an electrical connector in the cage 106, and an optical port of the optical module is connected to the optical fiber 101.

The cage 106 is positioned on the circuit board, enclosing the electrical connectors on the circuit board in the cage; the optical module is inserted into the cage, the optical module is fixed by the cage, and heat generated by the optical module is conducted to the cage through the optical module housing, and finally diffused through the heat sink 107 on the cage.

An optical module plays a key role in photoelectric conversion in the optical communication connection, and at present, a packaging mode of a silicon-based photoelectric chip is gradually matured in the optical module industry, and a silicon-based integrated circuit technology and an optical waveguide technology are combined together to manufacture a chip integrating a photoelectric conversion function and an electro-optical conversion function by a chip growth manufacturing process. However, since the silicon material used for the silicon optical chip is not an ideal laser chip light emitting material, and the light emitting unit cannot be integrated in the silicon optical chip manufacturing process, the silicon optical chip needs to be provided with light by an external light source.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an optical module structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 4 is an exploded schematic diagram of an optical module structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and fig. 4, an optical module 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper housing 201, a lower housing 202, an unlocking handle 203, a circuit board 300, a substrate, a silicon optical chip 400, a laser box 500, optical fiber ribbons 304a and 304b, and an optical fiber interface 306, where the silicon optical chip 400 and the laser box 500 are respectively disposed on the same side surface of the circuit board 300.

The upper shell and the lower shell form a packaging cavity with two openings, specifically two openings (204, 205) in the same direction, or two openings in different directions; one of the openings is an electrical port 204 for inserting into an upper computer such as an optical network unit, the other opening is an optical port 205 for accessing an external optical fiber to connect with an internal optical fiber, and the photoelectric devices such as the circuit board 300, the silicon optical chip 400 and the laser box 500 are positioned in the wrapping cavity.

The upper shell and the lower shell are made of metal materials generally, so that electromagnetic shielding and heat dissipation are facilitated; the assembly mode that the upper shell and the lower shell are combined is adopted, so that devices such as a circuit board and the like can be conveniently installed in the shell, the shell of the optical module can not be made into an integral structure generally, and therefore when the devices such as the circuit board and the like are assembled, the positioning component, the heat dissipation structure and the electromagnetic shielding structure cannot be installed, and production automation is not facilitated.

The unlocking handle 203 is positioned on the outer wall of the packaging cavity/lower shell 202, and the tail end of the unlocking handle is pulled to enable the unlocking handle to move relatively on the surface of the outer wall; when the optical module is inserted into the upper computer, the unlocking handle fixes the optical module in the cage of the upper computer, and the clamping relation between the optical module and the upper computer is released by pulling the unlocking handle, so that the optical module can be drawn out from the cage of the upper computer.

The bottom surface of the silicon optical chip and the bottom surface of the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, optical connection is formed between the silicon optical chip and the laser box, an optical path is very sensitive to the position relation between the silicon optical chip and the laser box, and materials with different expansion coefficients can cause deformation in different degrees, so that the realization of a preset optical path is not facilitated; in the embodiment of the invention, the silicon optical chip and the laser box are arranged on the same substrate, the substrate made of the same material deforms, the positions of the silicon optical chip and the laser box are affected equivalently, and the relative position of the silicon optical chip and the laser box is prevented from being greatly changed; the expansion coefficient of the substrate material is preferably similar to that of the silicon optical chip and/or the laser box material, the main material of the silicon optical chip is silicon, the laser box can be made of kovar metal, and the substrate is generally made of silicon or glass.

The relationship between the substrate and the circuit board is various, one of them is as shown in fig. 4, the circuit board has an opening 301 penetrating the upper and lower surfaces, the silicon optical chip and/or the laser box is arranged in the opening, thus the silicon optical chip and/or the laser box can radiate heat towards the upper surface direction of the circuit board and the lower surface direction of the circuit board simultaneously, the substrate 302 is arranged at one side of the circuit board, the silicon optical chip and/or the laser box penetrates the opening of the circuit board and then is placed on the radiating substrate, and the substrate 302 has the supporting and radiating effects; in another mode, the circuit board is not provided with an opening, the substrate is arranged on the circuit board, specifically, the substrate is arranged on the surface of the circuit board or embedded in the circuit board, and the silicon optical chip and the laser box are arranged on the surface of the substrate.

The surface of the end part of the circuit board is provided with a golden finger 307, the golden finger is composed of a pin which is mutually independent, the circuit board is inserted into an electric connector in the cage, and the golden finger is connected with a clamping elastic sheet in the electric connector in a conduction way; the golden fingers can be arranged on the surface of one side of the circuit board, and the golden fingers are generally arranged on the upper surface and the lower surface of the circuit board in consideration of the large requirement on the number of pins; the golden finger is used for establishing electric connection with an upper computer, and the specific electric connection can be power supply, grounding, I2C signals, communication data signals and the like.

The bottom surface of laser box 500 is disposed on substrate 302 and laser box 500 emits light through the side surface, which emits light into silicon photonics chip 400. Silicon is used as a main base material of the silicon optical chip, and silicon is not an ideal luminescent material, so that a light source cannot be integrated in the silicon optical chip, and an external laser box is required to provide the light source. The light provided by the laser box to the silicon optical chip is light with single wavelength and stable power, does not carry data, and is modulated by the silicon optical chip so as to load data into the light.

The bottom surface of silicon photonics chip 400 is disposed on substrate 302, and the side surface of the silicon photonics chip receives light from the laser box; the modulation of the emitted light and the demodulation of the received light are completed by a silicon optical chip, and a bonding pad electrically connected with a routing of a circuit board is arranged on the surface of the silicon optical chip; specifically, the circuit board provides a data signal from the upper computer to the silicon optical chip, the silicon optical chip modulates the data signal into light, and the optical signal from the outside is demodulated into an electric signal through the silicon optical chip and then is output to the upper computer through the circuit board. A plurality of optical fibers of the silicon optical chip are combined into an optical fiber ribbon, the optical fiber ribbon is connected with an optical fiber connector and an optical fiber interface 306, the optical fiber connector is connected with the silicon optical chip, and the optical fiber interface is used for being connected with external optical fibers. Specifically, the optical fiber connector 303a is connected to the optical fiber ribbon 304a, the optical fiber connector 303b is connected to the optical fiber ribbon 304b, the optical fiber ribbon 304a and the optical fiber ribbon 304b are respectively connected to the optical fiber interface 306, the optical fiber connector 303a is used for transmitting the emitted light transmitted from the silicon optical chip to the optical fiber interface 306, and the optical fiber connector 303b is used for transmitting the received light transmitted from the optical fiber interface 306 to the silicon optical chip 400.

Light emitted by the laser box enters the silicon optical chip, and is transmitted to the optical fiber interface 306 through the optical fiber connector 303a after being modulated by the silicon optical chip, so that the light emission of the optical module is realized; external light is transmitted to the silicon optical chip through the optical fiber interface 306 and the optical fiber connector 303b, and an electric signal is demodulated by the silicon optical chip and then output to an upper computer.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an assembly relationship among a circuit board, a silicon optical chip, and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention. The silicon optical chip and the laser box are arranged in the opening 301 of the circuit board in the same height step, and the side surface of the laser box is optically coupled with the side surface of the silicon optical chip; in addition, the silicon optical chip is optically coupled with the optical fiber connector 303a and the optical fiber connector 303 b; one end of the optical fiber connector 303a is optically coupled with the silicon optical chip, and the other end is connected with the optical fiber ribbon 304 a; one end of the optical fiber connector 303b is optically coupled with the silicon optical chip, and the other end is connected with the optical fiber ribbon 304 b; the optical fiber connectors 303a and 303b and the laser box 500 are arranged on the side of the silicon optical chip 400 in the same height steps, and the optical fiber ribbons 304a and 304b are positioned on the same side surface of the circuit board; the axial direction A of the laser box and the coupled side surface of the silicon optical chip form a non-vertical angle, the silicon optical chip is obliquely arranged relative to the laser box, and the coupled side surface of the laser box and the silicon optical chip is an inclined surface; the side surfaces of the two optical fiber connectors coupled with the silicon optical chip are inclined surfaces, the side surfaces of the silicon optical chip coupled with the laser box and the optical fiber connectors are planes, and the planes are parallel to the side surfaces of the laser box.

Fig. 6 is a schematic view of an exploded structure of an assembly relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 7 is a schematic view of another exploded angle structure of an assembly relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 6 and 7, a first optical hole 401, a second optical hole 402, and a third optical hole 403 are formed on a side surface of the silicon optical chip 400, and the optical holes have a plurality of optical channels therein, wherein the first optical hole 401 is optically coupled with the optical fiber connector 303 b; the second optical aperture 402 is optically coupled to the laser box 400, and specifically, the second optical aperture has more than two light incident channels for receiving light with the same wavelength; the third optical hole 403 is optically coupled with the optical fiber connector 303a, and the optical hole is arranged on the side surface of the silicon optical chip instead of the upper surface of the silicon optical chip, so that the coupling position relationship among the laser box, the optical fiber connector and the silicon optical chip is changed, and the structure of the laser box is changed; the fiber connector 303a has a number of fibers 305a for interfacing with the third aperture 403, the fiber connector 303b has a number of fibers 305b for interfacing with the first aperture 401, and the laser box has a sealing light transmissive member 508 forming a side of the laser box for interfacing with the second aperture 402.

The optical fiber connector comprises an upper substrate, a lower substrate and optical fibers, wherein the lower substrate is provided with a groove, the optical fibers are arranged in the groove, and the upper substrate covers the lower substrate; specifically, the optical fiber connector 303a includes an upper substrate 307a, a lower substrate 306a and an optical fiber 305a; the optical fiber connector 303b includes an upper substrate 307b, a lower substrate 306b, and an optical fiber 305b. The laser box comprises a cover body 501 and a cover plate 502, and photoelectric devices such as laser chips are arranged in a wrapping cavity formed by the cover body and the cover plate.

The silicon optical chip is internally provided with a Mach-Zehnder modulator to realize power modulation. The Mach-Zehnder modulator modulation adopts the same-wavelength light interference principle, one Mach-Zehnder modulator is provided with two interference arms, one beam of light is input to one single interference arm, two beams of light with the same wavelength need to be provided for one Mach-Zehnder modulator in total, and after the light is modulated by the Mach-Zehnder modulator, the light on the interference arms can be combined into one beam of light. The single-wavelength light can be provided for the silicon optical chip, and the light splitting waveguide in the silicon optical chip divides the single-wavelength light into two beams of light with the same wavelength which are respectively input to two interference arms of the Mach-Zehnder modulator; two beams of light with the same wavelength can be provided for the silicon optical chip, and the two beams of light with the same wavelength are directly and respectively input to the two interference arms of the Mach-Zehnder modulator; because the Mach-Zehnder modulator finally fuses the light on each interference arm, the scheme of providing two beams of light for the silicon optical chip can provide higher optical power than the scheme of providing one beam of light on the premise of adopting a single same optical power chip.

The silicon optical chip provided by the embodiment of the invention is provided with a plurality of optical channels optically coupled with the laser box on the side surface, multiple paths of light with the same wavelength can be input into the silicon optical chip through the optical channels, the light with the same wavelength is provided for each interference arm of the Mach-Zehnder modulator, the light emitting power of a single laser chip is limited, the light of a plurality of laser chips is superposed to improve the light power of the single wavelength, in the prior art, light with different wavelengths is generally provided among the plurality of laser chips, and the light power of the single wavelength is not superposed to improve.

In the embodiment of the invention, the structural relationship and the optical path of the silicon optical chip and the laser box are obviously different from the prior art, and the difference is related to the working principle and the structure of the silicon optical chip. The silicon optical chip realizes an optical modulation function, specifically, the laser box emits light with stable power, the light with stable power does not carry information, the silicon optical chip modulates the light with stable power into light with fluctuating power, and the light with fluctuating power carries information.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a structural relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an optical coupling relationship between a silicon optical chip and a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 11 is an exploded view of a structure of a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 8, 9, and 11, the laser box of the embodiment of the invention provides two beams of light with the same wavelength to the silicon optical chip to increase the power of the emitted light. The laser box provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises a cover body 501, a cover plate 502, a sealed light-transmitting piece 508, a conductive substrate positioned in a shell, a laser chip positioned on the conductive substrate, a lens positioned in the shell and an isolator positioned in the shell.

The cover body 501 and the cover plate 502 form a relatively closed cavity, the sealing light-transmitting member is used for sealing a laser box, the sealing light-transmitting member is arranged on a light path of the laser box and positioned between the cover body and the cover plate, light inside the cavity is emitted into the silicon optical chip after passing through the sealing light-transmitting member, specifically, the light can be emitted into the sealing light-transmitting member after passing through the focusing lens, and then enters the silicon optical chip. The sealed light-transmitting piece is a part which is optically coupled with the silicon optical chip in the laser box, the light-emitting surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece is the side surface which is coupled with the silicon optical chip and the laser box, and the light-emitting surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece is an inclined surface relative to the whole laser box.

The conductive substrate has various feasible designs, one of which is shown in fig. 8 and 9, the conductive substrate is partially positioned in the cavity and partially positioned outside the cavity, the part positioned in the cavity is provided with the laser chip, and the part positioned outside the cavity is electrically connected with the circuit board; in another feasible mode, the conductive substrate is completely positioned in the cavity, the laser chip is positioned on the conductive substrate, and the laser box is provided with other electric connection structures to be electrically connected with the conductive substrate.

The laser chip, the lens and the isolator are generally positioned in the cavity; the lens is arranged in two modes, one mode is that a lens, specifically a focusing lens, is arranged in the light emergent direction of the laser chip, is positioned between the laser chip and the sealed light-transmitting piece and is used for converging light emitted by the laser chip so as to facilitate subsequent coupling; in another mode, as shown in fig. 8, 9, and 11, two lenses, specifically, a collimating lens and a focusing lens, are disposed in the light emitting direction of the laser chip, light emitted by the laser chip is converted into collimated light through the collimating lens, the collimated light can maintain a small optical power attenuation in a long-distance light transmission process, and the focusing lens receives the collimated light to converge and couple the light into the silicon optical chip. The isolator is used for preventing light emitted by the laser chip from returning to the laser chip after being emitted, so the isolator is arranged in the light emitting direction of the laser chip, specifically, the isolator is arranged in the direction of the lens back to the laser chip, namely, a focusing lens is arranged between the isolator and the laser chip.

As shown in fig. 8, 9 and 11, the laser box according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a cover 501, a cover plate 502, a first conductive substrate 503a, a second conductive substrate 503b, a first laser chip 504a, a second laser chip 504b, a first collimating lens 505a, a second collimating lens 505b, a first focusing lens 506a, a second focusing lens 506b, an isolator 507, a sealing light-transmitting member 508, a first blocking substrate 510 and a second blocking substrate 509. The first conductive substrate 503a and the second conductive substrate 503b are located between the first blocking substrate 510 and the second blocking substrate 509, and the first blocking substrate 510, the first conductive substrate 503a, the second conductive substrate 503b, the second blocking substrate 509, the cover 501 and the cover plate 502 together form a sealing structure; the sealing light-transmitting piece 508, the cover body 501 and the cover plate 508 form a sealing structure, so that the cover body 501, the cover plate 502, the first conductive substrate 503a, the second conductive substrate 503b, the first blocking substrate 510, the second blocking substrate 509 and the sealing light-transmitting piece 508 form a sealed cavity together; the first conductive substrate 503a is partially located inside the cavity and partially located outside the cavity; the second conductive substrate 503b is partially located inside the cavity and partially located outside the cavity; a common conductive substrate is metallized ceramic, and a circuit pattern is formed on the surface of the ceramic to realize different electrical connection requirements; common plugging substrates are objects which can be sealed, such as ceramics, kovar alloy, solidified glue or die-cast metal and the like; the common sealing light-transmitting member is glass or glue after solidification.

A first laser chip 504a is arranged on a portion, located in the cavity, of the first conductive substrate 503a, and a first collimating lens 505a, a first focusing lens 506a, an isolator 507 and a sealing light-transmitting piece 508 are sequentially arranged along a light-emitting direction of the first laser chip 504 a; a second laser chip 504b is arranged on the portion, located in the cavity, of the second conductive substrate 503b, and a second collimating lens 505b, a second focusing lens 506b, an isolator 507 and a sealing light-transmitting member 508 are sequentially arranged along the light-emitting direction of the second laser chip 504 b; the first collimating lens 505a, the first focusing lens 506a, the second collimating lens 505b, the second focusing lens 506b and the isolator 507 are all arranged on the cover 501; in the embodiment of the invention, two beams of light emitted by two laser chips share one isolator and one sealed light-transmitting piece, optionally, a single isolator and a sealed light-transmitting piece can be independently arranged for a single beam of light, namely two isolators and two sealed light-transmitting pieces are arranged, and the arrangement still belongs to the protection range of the application;

the first laser chip and the second laser chip emit light with the same wavelength, so that two beams of light emitted by the first laser chip and the second laser chip are formed, and the two beams of light with the same wavelength finally improve the light emitting power of the silicon optical chip;

the light emitting direction of the first laser chip 504a is parallel to the axial direction a of the laser box, a single beam of light emitted by the first laser chip is in a divergent shape and is converged by the first collimating lens 505a to form collimated parallel light, and the parallel light can realize long-distance low-loss transmission so as to meet the requirements of subsequent light path design and structural design; the first converging lens 506a converges the collimated parallel light into converged light, the converged light reduces the area of a light spot and concentrates light energy, and the light coupling efficiency is improved;

the light emitting direction of the second laser chip 504b is parallel to the axis a of the laser box, and the single light beam emitted by the second laser chip is divergent and converged by the second collimating lens 505b to form collimated parallel light, which can realize long-distance low-loss transmission to meet the requirements of subsequent light path design and structure design; the second converging lens 506b converges the collimated parallel light into converged light, the converged light reduces the area of a light spot and concentrates light energy, and the light coupling efficiency is improved;

the isolator receives the light transmitted from the direction of the converging lens, allows the light to pass in a single direction and cut off in the opposite direction, thereby playing an isolation role and preventing the light passing through the isolator from reflecting back to the laser chip;

the sealed light-transmitting piece plays a role in sealing the laser box and transmitting light to form the side face of the laser box for emitting light. The laser box is internally provided with photoelectric devices such as a laser chip, the working environment of the laser box needs to be sealed to a certain degree so as to prevent the refraction influence of water vapor and the like on the devices and a light path, and the sealed light-transmitting piece plays a role in sealing the laser box; meanwhile, light emitted by the laser chip needs to be emitted out of the laser box, and the sealing light-transmitting member is used as a component arranged at the edge of the laser box and needs to have light-transmitting property so as to enable the laser to be emitted out.

The light beam is emitted from the light emitting surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece, so that the light beam is emitted from the laser box. The emitted light beam enters the silicon optical chip, and in order to prevent the light beam from being reflected when entering the silicon optical chip and avoid optical power loss caused by reflection, the light beam is required to be emitted into the light incident surface of the silicon optical chip at a non-vertical angle.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the sealed light-transmitting piece is designed in the laser box, and the light-emitting direction of the laser box is changed through the optical structure of the sealed light-transmitting piece so as to meet the light-in requirement of the silicon optical chip. The sealed light-transmitting member provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises two unparallel but opposite side surfaces, wherein one side surface is a light-in surface, the other side surface is a light-out surface, the light-in surface and the light-out surface of the sealed light-transmitting member are arranged in a non-parallel direction, namely, an included angle of non-0 degrees is formed, the light-out surface of the sealed light-transmitting member obviously inclines relative to the light-in surface, and the inclination is not caused by process errors, but is specially designed in such a structure.

As shown in fig. 9, the light-transmissive member 508 is a hexahedron with two pairs of opposing sides in parallel relationship and the other pair of opposing sides in non-parallel relationship. The light beam is emitted into the sealed light-transmitting piece at an angle vertical to the light incident surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece, is refracted at the light emergent surface, and is refracted again through the surface of the silicon optical chip, so that the light incident requirement of the silicon optical chip is met. The light incident surface of the sealed light-transmitting member is perpendicular to the direction of the incident light beam, specifically, as shown in fig. 9, the light incident surface of the sealed light-transmitting member is perpendicular to the light emitting direction of the laser chip, and the light emitted by the laser chip does not change direction during transmission; the light emitted by the laser chip changes direction in the transmission process, and the light reaching the sealed light-transmitting piece is vertical to the light incident surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece.

In the embodiment of the invention, the sealing light-transmitting piece is a device through which the light beam inevitably passes and the light beam finally passes in the laser box, so that the light transmission direction is changed by using the sealing light-transmitting piece, and the requirement on the light incidence angle of the silicon optical chip can be met relatively simply and conveniently. The light incident surface and the light emergent surface of the sealing light-transmitting piece are in a non-parallel relation, and the angle between the light incident surface and the light emergent surface is set, so that after light is emitted from the light incident surface and the light emergent surface of the sealing light-transmitting piece, the propagation direction of the light is close to the waveguide structure of the silicon optical chip, and the propagation direction of the light can be over against the waveguide structure of the silicon optical chip by combining the refraction factors of the light.

Fig. 10A is a schematic diagram of an optical path structure of a laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 10B is a schematic view of an optical path structure of another laser box according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the propagation directions of the silicon optical chip, the sealing light-transmitting member and the light in fig. 10B are rotated by a certain angle compared to fig. 10A; specifically, as shown in fig. 10A and 10B, taking a light beam emitted by the second laser chip 504B as an example, the sealing light-transmitting member includes two non-parallel but opposite side surfaces, one of which is a light-incident surface 508a, and the other of which is a light-emitting surface 508B, a gap is formed between the light-incident surface 400A of the silicon optical chip and the sealing light-transmitting member, the light beam can enter the silicon optical chip only after passing through the light-incident surface of the sealing light-transmitting member, the light-emitting surface of the sealing light-transmitting member, the gap, and the light-incident surface of the silicon optical chip in sequence, and the light beam is refracted at the light-emitting surface 508B of the sealing light-transmitting member and the light-incident surface 400A of the silicon optical chip, specifically, the light-emitting direction of the laser chip is parallel to the propagation direction of the light after entering the silicon optical chip.

In fig. 10A, the light emitted from the second laser chip is not parallel to the axial direction a of the laser box, the light emitted from the second laser chip is perpendicular to the light emitting surface of the second laser chip, the light incident surface 508a of the sealing light-transmitting member 508 is perpendicular to the propagation direction of the light, the light beam is not refracted, the light beam enters the light emitting surface 508b of the sealing light-transmitting member in the original propagation direction, the light emitting surface 508b of the sealing light-transmitting member is parallel to the light incident surface 400A of the silicon optical chip, the light beam is refracted at the light emitting surface 508b, the refracted light beam enters the light incident surface 400A of the silicon optical chip, and the refracted light beam enters the silicon optical chip after being refracted again. The refractive index of the silicon optical chip material is similar to that of the sealing light-transmitting member material, the light beam is refracted at the light-emitting surface 508B of the sealing light-transmitting member, then refracted at the light-entering surface 400a of the silicon optical chip, which is equivalent to the light entering the medium B from the medium a, then entering the medium a from the medium B, and the incident angle in the medium a is equal to the refraction angle in the medium B. In a silicon optical chip product, light is required to enter the light incident surface 400a of the silicon optical chip at an incident angle of 11.6 degrees, and a refraction angle theta of the light entering the silicon optical chip is 8 degrees, which requires that the light emitting direction of the laser chip and the light emitting surface of the sealed light-transmitting member form an angle of 8 degrees, namely the laser chip provides an incident angle alpha of 8 degrees on the light emitting surface of the sealed light-transmitting member. If the light that laser chip sent directly jets into silicon light chip's income plain noodles, then need provide 11.6 incident angles, adopt the structural design of sealed printing opacity piece, reduced laser chip's the light-emitting direction for silicon light chip's angle requirement, refraction is for the reflection moreover, more is favorable to maintaining the facula shape, does benefit to and promotes coupling efficiency.

As shown in fig. 10A, the light emitting direction of the laser chip is not parallel to the axial direction of the laser box, and this non-parallel design makes the production process require rotating the laser chip or the lens with the axial direction of the laser box as a reference, which brings great difficulty to the production process.

In order to realize that the light emitting direction of the laser chip is parallel to the axis direction of the laser box, the sealed light-transmitting piece and the silicon optical chip in the graph 10A are rotated by a certain angle to obtain the design shown in the graph 10B, the light incident surface of the sealed light-transmitting piece is perpendicular to the light emitting direction of the laser chip, the light emergent surface of the laser box is at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the axis direction of the laser box, the light incident surface of the silicon optical chip is at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the axis direction of the laser box, the laser box and the silicon optical chip are arranged in an opening of a circuit board, the opening of the circuit board is not regularly square, and the design is different from the conventional design thought.

Silicon optical chip and laser box all are the product of independent preparation, provide the light to silicon optical chip by the laser box, the light of directive silicon optical chip has specific direction requirement, the preparation technology of laser box, the light-emitting direction of laser chip has been injectd to the optical coupling mode of laser box and silicon optical chip, there is great angle change between these two directions, the mode of adopting conventional light reflection realizes that this angle change can bring the lower technical problem of coupling efficiency, this application adopts sealed light-transmitting part refraction light, between laser chip and silicon optical chip, the design seals the light-transmitting part income plain noodles, the angular relation of play plain noodles, realize this angle change, can avoid the problem that coupling efficiency reduces, and sealed light-transmitting part is as the optical device that can independently freely design, the operation is relatively convenient.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. An optical module is characterized by comprising a substrate, a circuit board, a silicon optical chip and a laser box, wherein the bottom surface of the silicon optical chip and the bottom surface of the laser box are respectively arranged on the substrate, light is emitted from the side surface of the laser box, and the side surface of the silicon optical chip receives the light from the laser box;

the circuit board is provided with an opening penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface, the silicon optical chip and the laser box are arranged in the opening, the substrate is arranged on one side of the circuit board, and the silicon optical chip and the laser box penetrate through the opening of the circuit board and are then placed on the substrate.

2. The optical module of claim 1, wherein the laser box comprises a laser chip and a sealing light-transmitting member, the sealing light-transmitting member forms a side surface of the laser box, a light-emitting direction of the laser chip is perpendicular to a light-in surface of the sealing light-transmitting member, and the light-in surface of the sealing light-transmitting member is not parallel to the light-out surface of the sealing light-transmitting member.

3. The optical module of claim 1, wherein the laser box comprises a first laser chip and a second laser chip, the first laser chip and the second laser chip emitting light of the same wavelength.

4. The optical module according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a light exit direction of the laser chip is parallel to an axial direction of the laser box.

5. The optical module as claimed in claim 2, wherein a side surface of the silicon optical chip is parallel to a light-emitting surface of the sealing light-transmitting member.

6. The optical module of claim 2, further comprising a focusing lens in the laser box, the focusing lens being positioned between the laser chip and the sealed optically transmissive member.

7. The optical module of claim 6, further comprising a collimating lens in the laser box, the collimating lens being positioned between the focusing lens and the laser chip.

8. The optical module of claim 6, further comprising an isolator in the laser box, the focusing lens being disposed between the isolator and the laser chip.

Images