Patent ID: 7084496

Claim:
An optoelectronic assembly for an electronic system comprising: a transparent substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, said transparent substrate being thermally conductive and being metallized on said second surface; a support electronic chip set configured for at least one of providing multiplexing, demultiplexing, coding, decoding and optoelectronic transducer driving and receive functions, said support electronic chip set bonded to said second surface of said transparent substrate; a first substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, said first surface in communication with said transparent substrate via said metallized second surface and said support chip set therebetween; a second substrate in communication with said second surface of said first substrate, said second substrate configured for mounting at least one of data processing, data switching and data storage chips; an optoelectronic transducer in signal communication with said support electronic chip set; and an optical signaling medium defined with one end having an optical fiber array aligned with said optoelectronic transducer substantially normal to said first surface of said transparent substrate; wherein an electrical signal from the support electronic chip set is communicated to the optoelectronic transducer via said metallized second surface of said transparent substrate, and wherein the support electronic chip set and the optoelectronic transducer share a common thermal path for cooling.