A fabrication technique for producing lightinduced self-written (LISW) waveguides for large-core optical fibers is proposed. The proposed technique employs a photopolymerizable resin consisting of two kinds of photopolymerizable monomers that differ from each other in terms of both refractive index and polymerization mechanism. The core portion is formed by virtue of a self-trapping effect, in ...

Bleaching of polymeric materials can be achieved by blending or surface treatment with fluorescent brighteners, FBs [1]. In both cases the FB migrates with time, and the degree of whiteness decreases. The introduction of polymerizable groups into the FB makes it applicable in the copolymerization process with vinyl monomers, resulting in the formation of covalent bonds in the polymer molecule. ...