Which outcome results in optical fibers under extreme stress?

💡 Explanation

Stress warps the fiber's geometry, leading to curvature, and therefore increased refractive index variations due to the photoelastic effect. This increased index variation causes signal degradation, rather than enhanced scattering effects or frequency shifts, because material density locally fluctuates differently.

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