Patent ID: 8439578

Claim:
An opto-electronic assembly for high speed opto-electronic signal transmission comprising: a) a mounting plate with a top side, wherein said top side further comprises at least one area at a higher level and at least one area at a lower level, wherein said mounting plate further comprises electrical conducting lines located on said at least one area at said higher level, wherein said conducting lines are designed for high frequency transmission at ten Gigabytes per second and above; b) at least one first electro-optical or opto-electronic transducer component having an optical port of the transducer and electrical contact pads on the top side of said transducer, wherein a bottom side of said transducer is used for the assembly; c) an integrated electronic circuit chip having a number of electrical contact pads on the top side of said mounting plate, wherein said number is at least two; d) a micro-mirror component; e) an optical transmission path wherein the transmission axis is oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the transducer component and to the top side of the mounting plate; wherein said transducer and said integrated electronic circuit chip are mounted on said at least one area at said lower level of said mounting plate in such a way that i) said micro-mirror component is located above said transducer with the reflecting mirror surface oriented at an angle close to forty-five degrees towards said transducer, and ii) a gap is formed between the top surface of said transducer and the bottom surface of said micro-mirror component; and f) electrical connections directly connecting the pads of said transducer with selected a first group of contact pads of said a number of contact pads of said integrated electronic circuit chip, and g) electrical connections directly connecting contact pads of a second group of contact pads distinct from said first group of contact pads of said a number of contact pads of said integrated electronic circuit chip to said electric conducting lines on said at least one area at said higher level of said mounting plate.