Evaluation of Dynamic Skew on Spooled and Deployed Multicore Fibers using O-Band Signals

We compare fluctuations of propagation delay and inter-core skew on spooled and field-deployed multicore fibers. Our observations show a reduction of propagation delay fluctuations over deployed fibers but similar inter-core skew behavior.

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