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cutoff wavelength

1. The wavelength corresponding to the cutoff frequency.
2. In an uncabled single-mode optical fiber, the wavelength greater than which a particular waveguide mode ceases to be a bound mode.
Note 1: The cutoff wavelength is usually taken to be the wavelength at which the normalized frequency is equal to
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Note 2: The cabled cutoff wavelength is usually considered to be a more functional parameter because it takes into consideration the effects of cabling the fiber.

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