Patent ID: 7138284

Claim:
A method of simultaneously burning in a plurality of active semiconductor surface emitting laser devices on a wafer comprising the steps of: providing a wafer having a plurality of active semiconductor surface emitting laser devices formed thereon, each of said laser devices having a first electrode and a second electrode on a first side of the wafer; depositing a temporary insulating layer on a first side of said wafer; selectively forming vias through said insulating layer to expose said first electrode and said second electrode of at least two of said plurality of laser devices; depositing a temporary electrically conductive interconnect layer over said insulating layer; processing said interconnect layer to form one or more first common contact traces, wherein said one or more first common contact traces electrically couple together said first electrodes of said at least two of said plurality of active laser devices; processing said interconnect layer to form one or more second common contact traces, wherein said one or more second common contact traces electrically couple together said second electrodes of said at least two of said plurality of active laser devices; applying a predetermined power to said interconnect layer whereby said predetermined power is simultaneously applied to said first electrodes and said second electrodes of said at least two of said plurality of active laser devices; identifying defective ones of said plurality of active laser devices; and completely removing said insulating layer and said temporary interconnect layer.