Patent ID: 8501536

Claim:
A method comprising: producing a slider wafer populated with electrical and magnetic components; fabricating an array of laser chips and associated photonic components on a laser substrate wafer; transferring the laser chips and associated photonic components from the laser substrate wafer to the slider wafer; wafer bonding the laser chips to the slider wafer, wherein the laser chips are not properly aligned in a specific placement with respect to the slider wafer after the wafer bonding of the laser chips to the slider wafer; and after the wafer bonding of the laser chips to the slider wafer, defining the shape and optical orientation of laser chips and associated photonic components to be aligned with other magnetic and electrical components on the slider wafer, wherein defining the shape and optical orientation of laser chips and associated photonic components aligns the laser chip with respect to the slider wafer after the wafer bonding of the laser chips to the slider wafer.