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Is the intensity of light affected when passed through fibre optics?

and by intensity I mean whatever it is a CCD would measure in a camera. also would all aspects of the wave be affected i.e. wavelength, freq etc and if all those fall under intensity, sorry physics never was my strong point :p

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1. No clue what a CCD might be. But intensity does diminish throughout the travel of light in optical fiber. Understand, it takes a very long strand of optical fiber travel for that diminishing to be significant in most practical cases. This is why optical cable can be laid out long distances from their light sources and still carry good signal to noise ratios throughout. But it does lessen; so for very large systems with very very long fiber lengths there must be signal boosters to re-intensify the signal to noise ratios. If you are doing some sort of camera work over short distances of fiber, I would think you'll see little, if not none, lessening of the light intensity.