CPC H01S 5/02251 (2021.01) [G02B 6/2938 (2013.01); H01S 5/02257 (2021.01)] | 24 Claims |
1. An article of manufacture having an axis and comprising:
an optical fiber component that contains a sequence of immediately-neighboring one another multiple dielectric boundaries defined across the axis;
a substantially cylindrical body of glass having an output facet; and
an intermediate body of glass material seamlessly connected with the optical fiber component at a first end thereof and seamlessly connected with the substantially cylindrical body of glass at a second end thereof,
wherein the article is configured to propagate an optical mode of the optical fiber component through both the intermediate body and the substantially cylindrical body only in one direction, and
wherein the optical fiber component includes two first optical fiber elements each having a first glass content and each carrying multiple dielectric boundaries defined across the axis, and a second optical fiber element between said two first optical fiber elements, a glass content of the second optical fiber element being necessarily different from the first glass content.
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