Transmission characteristics of optical fibers

•    Introduction

•     Attenuation

•     Absorption

•     Scettering losses

•             Linear

•                     Rayleigh scattering

•                     Mie scettering

•             Non - Linear

•                     Stimulated Brillouin scettering

•                     Stimulated Raman scettering

•     Bend losses

•     Dispersion

•             Intramodal dispersion

•                     Material dispersion

•                     Waveguide dispersion

•             Intermodal dispersion

•                     Multimode step index fibers

•                     Multimode graded index fibers

•                     Modal noise

•     Overall fiber dispersion

•             Multimode step index fibers

•             Single mode fibers