Active and passive fiber optic components and equipment for telecommunications, data communications, and optical applications, namely, fiber optic cables, coated fiber optic cables, metalized fibers, metalized fiber arrays, lensed fibers, filters, multiplexers, demultiplexers, switches, optical switches, micro-electro-mechanical switches, gratings, Bragg gratings, on-fiber sensors, on-fiber couplers, on-fiber modulators, on-fiber variable attenuators, fiber amplifiers, metalized ferrule fiber sleevings, depolarizers, connectorized fibers, anti-reflection coated fibers, solderable fibers