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A technique has been developed for simultaneously dehydrating and consolidating preforms prepared by the v.a.d. method of optical-fibre fabrication. The residual OH content has been reduced to 0.03 p.p.m. By controlling the dehydration process, no depletion of GeO2 has been observed.
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