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We are investigating short wavelength UV light to cut away unwanted cells like tumours, and remove infections, without harming the surrounding healthy tissues.

It can be split into 3 categories, UVA, UVB and UVC. UVC light is known to kill bacteria.

UV light has both positive and negative effects.

UV light is a form of radiation that is emitted from the sun.

using uv light for clinical applications

How do we transport UV light to areas of the body non-invasively?

Normal optical fibres are long strands of solid glass which transmit light.

our optical fibre based technology

Deep UV light cannot be transmitted through a normal solid glass optical fibre.

We have solved these problems in u-Care by making specially designed fibres which transmit light through a hollow core, essential for guiding light at deep UV wavelengths.

our optical fibre based technology

At the University of Bath we have a fibre fabrication facility where we use silica glass tubes and doped silica rods to make optical fibres. A meter long silica tube is pulled into thin fibres but pulling the glass fibre out of a hot furnace faster than we feed the structure in.

How Do we make our optical fibres?

How Do we make our optical fibres?

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A collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, and the University of Bath

Deep ultraviolet light therapies

https://www.u-care.ac.uk/

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