What is OM5 Multi Mode Fiber? Any different from OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4?
The optical communication in the "OM" means "Optical the Multi - MODE”, light mode, multimode fiber represents standard fiber level. Currently, TIA and IEC defined fiber patch cord standards are OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4 and OM5. First of all, what is multimode and single-mode? Single-mode fiber (Single Mode Fiber) allow only one mode transmission fiber, the core diameter of about 8 ~ 9 μm, an outer diameter of about 125 μm. Multimode fiber (Multimode Optical Fiber) allowing transmission of light in different modes of a single optical fiber, a core diameter of 50 μm to 62.5μm. Compared to single-mode fiber multimode fiber can support longer transmission distance, in 100Mbps of Ethernet as well as 1G Gigabit Ethernet single-mode fiber can support more than ...