Which risk is increased if the cladding's refractive index significantly decreases in an optical fiber?

💡 Explanation

Light will escape the core due to a lower refractive index contrast according to Snell's law; therefore, increased light leakage results because total internal reflection fails to occur, rather than maintaining propagation because of the change of index.

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