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single-mode fiber

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Also known as: SM fiber

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optical fibers

In telecommunications media: Optical fibres
…type of fibre, known as single-mode (SM) fibre, eliminates multimode dispersion by reducing the diameter of the core to a point at which it passes only light rays of the zeroth order mode. Typical SM core diameters are 10 micrometres or less, while standard SI core diameters are in the…
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