The size of the optical fiber is commonly referred to by the outer diameter of its core cladding and coating.
Multimode fiber optic cable diameter.
Single mode fiber is usually 9 125 in construction.
The cladding diameter of single mode and multimode fiber is 125 µm.
Multimode fiber optic cable.
Om1 om2 om3 and om4.
Usually the diameter of the multimode fiber is either 50 125 µm or 62 5 125 µm.
This means that the core to cladding diameter ratio is 9 microns to 125 microns.
Multi mode links can be used for data rates up to 100 gbit s.
The attenuation of multimode fiber is higher than sm fiber because of its larger core diameter.
Some types are single mode and some types are multimode.
There are different types of fiber optic cable.
Multi mode fiber has a fairly large core diameter that enables multiple light modes to be propagated and limits the maximum length of a transmission link because of modal dispersion.
Multimode fiber optic cable has a larger core typically 50 or 62 5 microns that enables multiple light modes to be propagated.
The fiber core of single mode cable is very narrow so the light that passes through these fiber optical cables is not reflected too many times which keeps the attenuation to a.
The maximum transmission distance for mmf cable is around 550m at the speed of 10git s.
At present there are four kinds of multi mode fibers.
Om1 multimode fiber cables.
Multimode fibers are described by their core and cladding diameters.
Multimode fiber optic cable has a large diametral core that allows multiple modes of light to propagate.
Because of this more data can pass through the multimode fiber core at a given time.