Which risk significantly increases when birefringent materials distort polarization?

💡 Explanation

Significant polarization changes from birefringence impact signal integrity of fiber optic networks triggering polarization mode dispersion, because various polarization states propagate at inconsistent speeds therefore signal fading appears at the detector, rather than increased nonlinearities in standard situations.

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