Mean time between outages

In fiber optics, mode volume is the number of bound modes that an optical fiber is capable of supporting.

The mode volume M is approximately given by $\frac{4V^2}{{\pi }^2}$ and $\frac{V^2}{2}\left(\frac{g}{g+2}\right)$, respectively for step-index and power-law index profile fibers, where g is the profile parameter, and V is the normalized frequency, which must be greater than 5 for this approximation to be valid.

See also

• Equilibrium mode distribution
• Mode scrambler
• Mandrel wrapping

References

• Template:FS1037C MS188

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