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Recent advances in the manufacturing technology of low loss optical fibres have made possible serious systems design and testing. But this has highlighted the fact that the mechanisms involved in the propagation of light in multimode fibres were at best, poorly understood. New measurement techniques are now being used to check more sophisticated theoretical analyses of propagation in “imperfect” and cabled fibres and are leading to a deeper understanding of this new transmission medium, its possibilities and its limitations.
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Midwinter, J. Trends in optical fibre transmission research. Nature 261, 371–376 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261371a0
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