A step index fibre has core diameter 40 µm with core refractive indix of 1.3 and numerical aperture 0.5, then the refractive index of cladding is

The fibers which relax the spectral requirements for optical sources and allow flexible wavelength division multiplying are known as . . . . . . . .

A. Dispersion-flattened single mode fiber

B. Dispersion-enhanced single mode fiber

C. Dispersion-compressed single mode fiber

D. Dispersion-standardized single mode fiber

Photonic crystal fibers also called as . . . . . . . .

A. Conventional fibers

B. Dotted fibers

C. Stripped fibers

D. Holey fibers

An optical fiber behaves as a birefringence medium due to differences in . . . . . . . .

A. Effective R-I and core geometry

B. Core-cladding symmetry

C. Transmission/propagation time of waves

D. Refractive indices of glass and silica

Any amount of stress occurring at the core-cladding interface would be reduced by grading the material composition.

A. True

B. False