Scattering losses in glass arises from macroscopic variations in the material density From compositional Fluctuations and from structural inhomogeneities or defects occurring during
fibre manufacture.
Glass is made up of several oxides ,such as Sio2,Geo2, and P2O5 compositional fluctuations
can occur.Glass structure naturally contain regions in which the molecular density is either
higher or lower than the average density in the glass. These two effects give rise to
refractive index variations which occur with in the glass over distances that are small compared with the wavelength.
For a single component glass the scattering loss at a wavelength λ resulting from density fluctuations
can be given as
where n is the refractive index ,KB is Boltzmann constant , βT is the isothermal compressibility of the
material , and Tf is fictive temperature.
alternately we use other relation
where p is the photo elastic coefficient .
for multicomponent glasses the scattering is given by
where is square of mean square refracive index fluctuations over volume of
structural inhomogeneities and defects created during fibre fabrication can also cause
scattering of light out of the fibre. these defects may be in the form of trapped
gas bubbles ,unreacted starting materials,and crystallized regions in the glass.
the losses of multimode fibres are generally higher than those of single mode fibres.