Which signal distortion increases when a fiber optic link is underfilled during wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)?

💡 Explanation

Modal noise increases due to incomplete speckle patterns caused by the underfilled launch condition. This leads to increased power fluctuations because the reduced number of modes provides less averaging, therefore modal noise increases rather than other distortions which have different underlying causes.

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