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Single-mode fiber exhibits large intermodal dispersion
Single-mode fibers do not exhibit intermodal dispersion since they support only one mode. In the geometrical-optics description such a broadening was attributed to different paths followed by different rays. Dispersion is the effect of different frequencies propagating at different speeds, and there are various mechanisms in optical fibre which mean that in general a fibre is. Dispersion in optical fibre can take the forms of model dispersion, material dispersion, and waveguide dispersion.