On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Steve Alligood <[email protected]>wrote:
> naw, you can get 32+ colors on a pair of single mode fiber, it just isn't > cheap and has problems with different colors at different distances. > Maybe you can, but a single mode waveguide is designed to allow propagation of a single mode at a particular wavelength. That wavelength of that mode can be adjusted by changing core diameter and the index of refraction profile [0]. I suppose you could couple other wavelengths into an evanescent mode along the cladding over a short enough distance, though. Are you referring to some particular product? --- David Landry [0] Single mode transmission happens at V < 2.4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_frequency_(fiber_optics)) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
