multimode

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English

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Etymology

From multi- +‎ mode.

Adjective

multimode (not comparable)

  1. Having, or employing multiple modes.
    Coordinate term: monomode

Noun

multimode (plural multimodes)

  1. A simultaneous superposition of modes.
    • 1985, Semiconductors and Semimetals, page 80:
      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.
    • 2018, S. C. Gupta, Textbook on Optical Fibre Communication and Its Applications, page 27:
      In the multimode graded index fiber, multimodes travel faster as compared to multimode step index fiber.