%0 Electronic Article %A W.A. Gambling %A D.N. Payne %A H. Matsumura %K core loss %K attenuation %K propagation in multimode optical fibres %K cladding loss %K finite transmission loss %K fibre dispersions %X 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. %@ 0033-7722 %T Effect of loss on propagation in multimode fibres %B Radio and Electronic Engineer %D November 1973 %V 43 %N 11 %P 683-688 %I %U https://digital-library.theiet.org/;jsessionid=gnh6qtl0437co.x-iet-live-01content/journals/10.1049/ree.1973.0100 %G EN