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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: modal distortion
Synonym1: modal dispersion (deprecated)
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Definition: in a multimode optical fibre, that distortion resulting from the propagation of different modes having different properties

NOTE – Modal distortion arises as a result of differential mode delay and differential mode attenuation, under given launch conditions.


Publication date:1991-10
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