Patent ID: 7452140

Claim:
An optoelectronic module comprising: an optical fiber block; a plurality of optical fibers having fiber facets terminating on an end face of said optical fiber block; a submount disposed adjacent to said end face of said optical fiber block; an edge emitting laser diode array disposed on said submount in optical alignment with said fiber facets of said optical fibers; a cap disposed on said submount and detachably adjoining said end face of said optical fiber block such that said cap encloses said edge emitting laser diode array and said fiber facets therein, said cap augmenting the contact area between said submount and said fiber block; and a resin encapsulating said array in said cap, said resin being substantially transparent to light wavelengths passing between said array and said fiber facets, wherein said cap has an injection hole therein for introducing said resin in an initially fluid uncured state into a chamber formed by said cap, said submount and said end face of said optical fiber block such that the fluid resin is contained by said cap in said uncured state.