Spi Lasers UK Limited

Trumpf Laser Gmbh

Julia Helen Shaw

Mikhail Nickolaos Zervas

Fabio Ghiringhelli

Andrew Marshall

An optical fibre () which has a first refractive index profile () that can be changed by heating to a second refractive index profile (), at least one first dopant () for providing the first refractive index profile, at least one concealed dopant (), and at least one mobile dopant (), wherein the mobile dopant has a molar refractivity and is present in a concentration () such as to balance a change () in the first refractive index profile induced by the concealed dopant, and has a diffusion constant () greater than a diffusion constant () of the concealed dopant, so that heating of the optical fibre causes the mobile dopant to diffuse more quickly than the concealed dopant, thereby allowing the concealed dopant and the mobile dopant to change the first refractive index profile to the second refractive index profile.

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Julia Helen Shaw