Fiber and its use
Optical fibers for telecommunications
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Fiber and its use
Optical fibers for telecommunications

Authors : Michel JOINDOT, Irène JOINDOT

Publication date: April 10, 2013, Review date: February 4, 2019 | Lire en français

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1. Fiber and its use

1.1 Different types of fiber

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1.1.1 Single-mode and multimode fibers

The fibers currently used in transmission, both single-mode and multimode, are rotationally symmetrical dielectric guides made up of concentric layers with different optical properties. In an ideal fiber, the refractive index n depends only on the distance r from the axis. The graph n (r ) is called the fiber's index profile. Figure 1 gives some examples of index profiles....

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