The Department of Photonic Materials has experience in the development of custom optical fibers from own-made glasses. The participants of the course will have the opportunity to attend the whole process of making such fiber, starting from synthesizing multicomponent glass, material postprocessing, building the fiber prefrom by stack and draw technique, and drawing the fiber. The course also includes the measurements of basic optical properties of the optical fibers and splicing microstructured and conventional step-index fibers.