multimode

alternative multi-mode

1. not comparableHaving, or employing multiple modes.

plural multimodes · alternative multi-mode

1. A simultaneous superposition of modes.

   In the multimode graded index fiber, multimodes travel faster as compared to multimode step index fiber.

   2018, S. C. Gupta, Textbook on Optical Fibre Communication and Its Applications, page 27

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   When the feedback increases, external cavity modes become multimodes and generate the laser noise by random self-mode locking. When the feedback increases further, longitudinal mode hopping or incomplete multimodes appear.

   1985, Semiconductors and Semimetals, page 80