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Excessive bending radius of optical cable has an impact

Excessive bending causes light leakage from micro cracks in the fiber cladding, resulting in data loss and signal attenuation. In severe cases, tight bends can cause complete cable failure, making minimum bend radius compliance essential for successful installations. During installation under tension, maintain a minimum bend radius of 20 times the cable's outer diameter, while post-installation requires a minimum long-term bend radius of 10 times the cable diameter. This application note reviews benefits of reduced macro bend loss found in Sterlite's enhanced OH-LITE®(E) optical fiber and its benefits in transmission. This critical radius can be very small (a few millimeters) for fibers with robust guiding characteristics (high numerical aperture), whereas it is much larger (often tens of centimeters) for single-mode fibers with large mode areas.