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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
53-11Optical Loss
53.3.3 Intrinsic Fiber Losses
Intrinsic ber losses are those associated with the ber-optic material itself and are considered the pri-
mary
sou
rce
of at
tenuation
. e
re
is no wa
y
to el
iminate
al
l
im
purities
in b
er
op
tics
ev
en
wi
th
a pr
ecise
ma
nufacturing
pr
ocess
. e to
tal
lo
ss
is pr
oportional
to th
e
b
er
le
ngth
L an
d
th
e
at
tenuation
co
ecient
α is ex
pressed
in dec
ibels
pe
r
ki
lometer
of b
er
. In
trinsic
b
er
lo
sses
ar
e
ma
inly
ca
used
by ab
sorption
an
d
sc
attering
bec
ause
sc
attering
an
d
ab
sorption
oc
cur
wh
en
li
ght
wa
ve
sig
nals
in
teract
wi
th
im
purities
in the ber.
53
.3.3.1
Ma
terial
Abs
orption Losses
Absorption
is th
e
ma
in
sou
rce
of in
trinsic
lo
ss
in op
tical
b
ers,
wh
ich
ca
uses
at
tenuation
by co
nverting
op
tical
po
wer
in
to
vi
bration ...
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