Which risk increases when optical fiber coatings degrade?

💡 Explanation

As coatings degrade, increased surface irregularities cause greater unintended reflections within the fiber; this increases modal interference because additional modes propagate, therefore causing signal distortion, rather than simply power loss or wavelength shifts within the system

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