Different cascaded fiber structures such as single-multi-single (SMS) mode, multi-single-multi (MSM) etc. have unique spectral features due to the multimode interference (MMI) phenomena. The transmission spectrum depends on the sensing fiber length i.e., SMF and MMF for MSM and SMS, respectively at the time of fabrication (ignoring the effect of external perturbations).
How does the group dispersion phenomenon affect these spectral features?
The spectrum of one of such cascaded fiber structures (here MSM) has been attached for the reference that occurs due to the MMI phenomena.
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