Improving the precision of multimode optical fiber attenuation measurements/

To improve the precision of attenuation measurements for multimode optical fibers, the different measurement errors are analyzed and an error equation is established. This is used to quantify total error by inserting relevant parameters taken from a recent Chinese nationwide interlaboratory comparison of multimode optical fiber attenuation measurements. It is suggested that the measurement error of the attenuation of a multimode optical fiber be expressed in both the error for the total loss of the entire length of the fiber, and the error of the loss per unit length, rather than the usual way of only expressing it per unit length