The present disclosure discloses an optical device structure including an optical fiber including a core part, a clad part, and a three-dimensional micro hole structure in the clad part, wherein a surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure is provided with at least a non-flat surface, and a conformal graphene layer is formed on the surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure, and a method of manufacturing the same.

In some implementations, an emitter module may include an emitter array that includes multiple emitters, and an optical fiber that includes multiple cores within a single cladding. The emitter array may be optically coupled to a tip of the optical fiber such that each emitter, of the multiple emitters of the emitter array, is optically coupled to a respective core of the multiple cores of the optical fiber. The optical fiber may include an integral lens at the tip of the optical fiber. The integral lens at the tip of the optical fiber may be in alignment with the multiple cores of the optical fiber.

A method of forming a metallized mirror coating on a light diffusing optical fiber (110) includes contacting an end face (118) of a second end (114) of a light diffusing optical fiber (110) with a metallized mirror precursor. The light diffusing optical fiber (110) includes a first end (112) opposite the second end (114), a core (120), a polymer cladding (122) surrounding the core (120) and coplanar with the core at the end face (118) of the second end (114), an outer surface (128), and a plurality of scattering structures (125) positioned within the core (120), the polymer cladding (122), or both, that are configured to scatter guided light toward the outer surface (128) of the light diffusing optical fiber (110). The method also includes heating the metallized mirror precursor such that the metallized mirror precursor bonds to the core (120) and the polymer cladding (122) at the end face (118) of the second end (114) thereby forming a metallized mirror coating on the end face (118) of the second end (114).

An embodiment optical connector includes a fiber having a core through which light is guided and a magnet attached to one end of the fiber, and the magnet has an opening that exposes at least the end face of the core. An embodiment optical connection structure includes a first optical connector and a second optical connector, each including a fiber having a core through which light is guided and a magnet attached to one end of the fiber, wherein the magnets are magnetized so as to exert attraction on each other, and when the first optical connector and the second optical connector are mechanically connected by magnetic forces, the core of the first optical connector and the core of the second optical connector are optically connected through the opening of the magnet of the first optical connector and the opening of the magnet of the second optical connector.

Systems and methods are provided for a mechanical actuator based on a fiber optic platform. A material that is configured to be activated by light may be incorporated into an optical fiber that serves as both an actuator and a power delivery network. This platform is adaptable to different materials, types of motions, and length scales and allows for precise delivery of photons to the material.

A non-radial array of microstructure elements provides enhanced wavelength selective filtering. The elements are arranged along a line that does not intersect the center of the core. In this configuration, the first coupling element in an array that is nearest to the core is a non-integer array unit spacing from the main waveguide where the array unit spacing is defined as the flat to flat distance of a hexagonal cell.

An optical filter system, preferably including an optical input, one or more sets of filters, and/or a control module. A method for optical filter operation, preferably including operating an optical filter system in a normal mode, assessing filter alignment, and/or shifting filter assignments.

Provided are a metallic micro/nano-structure and an optical fiber having it on the end-facet. The metallic micro/nano-structure comprises of a metallic film and a micro/nano pattern in the metallic film. The micro/nano pattern divides the metallic film into a periodic structure and an embedded defect structure; the defect structure locally breaks the periodicity of the periodic structure; in at least one dimension, the periodic structure has a period T satisfying 0.75λ<T<1.25λ, λ is a wavelength of a surface plasmon at an interface between the metallic film and a medium; and the surface plasmon resonates within the defect structure and its surrounding area. The optical fiber end-facet device takes the advantages of single-mode optical fiber systems, including stable optical transmission, compact systems and flexible configurations. It achieves high efficiency coupling between fiber guided lightwaves and surface plasmon resonance, using a metallic micro/nano-structure which is a distributed feedback resonant cavity.

A system that uses a scalable array of individually controllable laser beams that are generated by a fiber array system to process materials into an object. The adaptive control of individual beams may include beam power, focal spot width, centroid position, scanning orientation, amplitude and frequency, piston phase and polarization states of individual beams. Laser beam arrays may be arranged in a two dimensional cluster and configured to provide a pre-defined spatiotemporal laser power density distribution, or may be arranged linearly and configured to provide oscillating focal spots along a wide processing line. These systems may also have a set of material sensors that gather information on a material and environment immediately before, during, and immediately after processing, or a set of thermal management modules that pre-heat and post-heat material to control thermal gradient, or both.

A high backscattering optical fiber comprising a perturbed segment in which the perturbed segment reflects a relative power such that the optical fiber has an effective index of n.sub.eff, a numerical aperture of NA, a scatter of R.sub.p.fwdarw.r.sup.(fiber) that varies axially along the optical fiber, a total transmission loss of α.sub.fiber, an in-band range greater than one nanometer (1 nm), and a figure of merit (FOM) in the in-band range. The FOM being defined as:

[00001]$\mathrm{FOM}=\frac{R_{p.fwdarw.r}^{\left(\mathrm{fiber}\right)}}{{{\alpha }_{\mathrm{fiber}}\left(\frac{\mathrm{NA}}{2n_{\mathrm{eff}}}\right)}^2}.$