Effect of loss on propagation in multimode fibres

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© The Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers
Published 24/07/2012

Abstract

An analysis is given of propagation in multimode optical fibres having finite transmission loss. Using experimentally-deduced values for the cladding loss, fibre dispersions are calculated for a range of input beam widths and are compared with experiment. It is shown that the core loss has little effect on dispersion. Cladding loss reduces dispersion for a relatively small increase in attenuation, while dispersion and attenuation become non-linear functions of length.

Inspec keywords: fibre optics; optical dispersion; losses; optical waveguides

Other keywords: core loss; attenuation; propagation in multimode optical fibres; cladding loss; finite transmission loss; fibre dispersions

Subjects: Fibre optics; Fibre optics and fibre waveguides

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