Patent ID: 9500809
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A fiber array including a substrate having a monolithic solid body consisting of a single component limited by two surfaces, each portion of said substrate remaining motionless with respect to another portion thereof during a process of affixing an optical fiber therein, said substrate having a plurality of holes therethrough, each hole defined by wherein, when said plurality of optical fibers is fixed within the fiber array, each optical fiber from the plurality of optical fibers is positioned against and is in contact with the same side of a continuous wall of a corresponding hole and is axially parallel to the wall of the hole along a length of the hole, said fiber array further comprising a stationary restriction element within bounds of the continuous wall between the first and second ends of each corresponding hole from the plurality of holes, said restriction element configured to press the fiber in a predetermined direction.