Patent ID: 9488780
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: B23K,G02B,H01S

Claim Text:
1. A device for converting a transverse spatial profile of intensity of a light beam, which has a given wavelength, so that said transverse spatial profile changes from a first profile having a first shape to a second profile having a second shape that is different from the first shape, wherein the first profile is one of three profiles of the set made up of a quasi-Gaussian profile, a flattened profile, and a ring-shaped profile, and the second profile is one of the other two profiles in the set, the device comprising: a microstructured optical fiber including a first end, a second end, and a core; a ring that surrounds the core and has a refractive index greater than that of the core; and an optical cladding that surrounds the ring and has a refractive index less than that of the core, wherein transverse dimensions of the microstructured optical fiber vary longitudinally, and the first and second ends have opto-geometrical parameters such that at the given wavelength the microstructured optical fiber has a fundamental mode, which has the first profile at the first end and the second profile at the second end, such that when the light beam having the first profile and the first shape is introduced through the first end of the microstructured optical fiber, the light beam having the second profile and the second shape emerges from the microstructured optical fiber through the second end.