The term is also used, more loosely, in multi-mode optical fiber.

It uses two strands of multi-mode optical fiber for receive and transmit.

Multi-mode optical fiber can be built with either graded index or step index.

Because of its high capacity and reliability, multi-mode optical fiber generally is used for backbone applications in buildings.

Multi-mode optical fiber is a type of optical fiber mostly used for communication over short distances, such as within a building or on a campus.

In the output of a multi-mode optical fiber, a speckle pattern results from a superposition of mode field patterns.

The equipment used for communications over multi-mode optical fiber is less expensive than that for single-mode optical fiber.

A multi-mode optical fiber will only propagate light that enters the fiber within a certain cone, known as the acceptance cone of the fiber.

The number of modes in an optical fiber distinguishes multi-mode optical fiber from single-mode optical fiber.

Two main types of optical fiber used in optic communications include multi-mode optical fibers and single-mode optical fibers.

A guided ray (also bound ray or trapped ray) is a ray of light in a multi-mode optical fiber, which is confined by the core.

Like multi-mode optical fibers, single mode fibers do exhibit modal dispersion resulting from multiple spatial modes but with narrower modal dispersion.

Equipment for single mode fiber is more expensive than equipment for multi-mode optical fiber, but the single mode fiber itself is usually cheaper in bulk.

A multi-mode optical fiber has a larger core ( 50 micrometers), allowing less precise, cheaper transmitters and receivers to connect to it as well as cheaper connectors.

Conducted research in emerging fiber optics technology, including publication of seminal papers on optical receiver design, applications of optical amplifiers, and propagation in multi-mode optical fibers with mode coupling.

SMs have Dual Link Interface (DLI) cards to connect them by multi-mode optical fibers to the Communications Modules for time-divided switching to other SMs.

The term equilibrium length is sometimes used to describe a stationary mode distribution, which is the length of multi-mode optical fiber necessary to attain a static mode distribution from a specific excitation condition.

He worked at Bell Labs, TRW, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), researching optical fiber receiver design, propagation in multi-mode optical fibers, time-domain reflectometry, and the end-to-end modeling of optical communication systems.

The FTTE architecture allows for many media choices from the TE to the work area; it may be balanced twisted pair copper, multi-mode optical fiber, or even wireless if an access point is installed in or near the TE.

Guided lightwave transmission via frequency selective waveguides involves the emerging field of fiber optics and the ability of certain glassy compositions as a transmission medium for a range of frequencies simultaneously (multi-mode optical fiber) with little or no interference between competing wavelengths or frequencies.