Patent ID: 7474815

Claim:
A method of interconnecting or mapping optoelectronic devices to waveguides; said method comprising: arranging a plurality of said optoelectronic devices to form an optoelectronic module, said optoelectronic module having said optoelectronic device arranged in a two-dimensional array; connecting a plurality of said waveguides to said optoelectronic devices in a one-dimensional array of said waveguides, and wherein said module comprises arraying said plurality of optoelectronic devices in selectively a rectangular, square or rhomboidal array, said waveguides extending from said optoelectronic devices in substantially linear mutually parallel orientations; said substantially linear parallel orientations of said waveguides being at a fixed angle compared to a two-dimensional grid represented by said optoelectronic devices and extending along paths routed to a circuit board at an arbitrary angle for minimizing waveguide losses; and wherein a maximum number of optoelectronic device array rows is defined by the pitch between elements on said optoelectronic devices, waveguide core widths, and minimum separation between waveguide cores.