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step-index fiber

A multimode or singlemode optical fiber with a uniform refractive index throughout the core. The step is the shift between the core and the cladding, which has a lower refractive index. See graded-index fiber, dispersion-shifted fiber and dispersion.

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This agrees with the results shown in Figure 5(c) when for a step-index fiber sufficiently good approximations of the dispersion values can be obtained even for N as small as 4.

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