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Prof. G. Aarthi
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Optical Fiber communications, 3rd ed.,G.Keiser,McGrawHill, 2000
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Total u er of
fiber is given by
where d is the diameter of the core of the fiber. For a multimode graded index
fiber having parabolic refractive index profile core,
Here the light rays travel at different speeds in different paths of the fiber
because of the parabolic variation of refractive index of the core.
Launching of light into the fiber and fabrication of the fiber are easy.
These fibers are generally used in local area networks and applications
where high power must be transmitted.
Graded-index fiber
Compromise between the large core diameter and N.A. of
multimode fiber and the higher bandwidth of single-mode
fiber.
With creation of a core whose index of refraction decreases
parabolically from the core center toward the cladding, light
traveling through the center of the fiber experiences a higher
index than light traveling in the higher modes.
This means that the higher-order modes travel faster than the
lower-order modes, which allows them to at h up to the
lower-order modes, thus decreasing the amount of modal
dispersion, which increases the bandwidth of the fiber.