Abstract
The determination of the signal-to-noise ratio degradation of optical signals in the presence of modal noise is important to the design of multimode data links with coherent sources. To date, most of the analyses put forth are based upon the assumption of a uniform distribution of power over all of the guided modes of a fiber/waveguide.! This assumption, while making the analysis more straight forward, may not always be justifiable.
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