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Scattering losses in optical fiber.
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Scattering losses in glass arise from microscopic variations in the material density, from compositional fluctuations and from structural inhomogeneties or defects occurring during fiber manufacture.
I. Linear Scattering mechanism:
It causes the transfer of some or all of the optical power contained within one propagating mode to be transferred linearly …