Abstract
Photo-hypersensitisation of optical fibres allows significant reduction of UV-induced attenuation during subsequent photolytic writing of gratings and other components. Within phosphosilicate fibres these losses can be eliminated across the entire near UV to near IR spectrum.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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