GB2190264B - Optical coupler device - Google Patents

Optical coupler device

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GB2190264B
GB2190264B GB8709898A GB8709898A GB2190264B GB 2190264 B GB2190264 B GB 2190264B GB 8709898 A GB8709898 A GB 8709898A GB 8709898 A GB8709898 A GB 8709898A GB 2190264 B GB2190264 B GB 2190264B
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optical coupler
coupler device
optical
coupler
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GB2190264A (en
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Marc Foucault
Jean-Luc Kemystetter
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01M—TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01M11/00—Testing of optical apparatus; Testing structures by optical methods not otherwise provided for
    • G01M11/30—Testing of optical devices, constituted by fibre optics or optical waveguides
    • G01M11/31—Testing of optical devices, constituted by fibre optics or optical waveguides with a light emitter and a light receiver being disposed at the same side of a fibre or waveguide end-face, e.g. reflectometers
    • G01M11/3109—Reflectometers detecting the back-scattered light in the time-domain, e.g. OTDR
    • G01M11/3154—Details of the opto-mechanical connection, e.g. connector or repeater
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01M—TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01M11/00—Testing of optical apparatus; Testing structures by optical methods not otherwise provided for
    • G01M11/30—Testing of optical devices, constituted by fibre optics or optical waveguides
    • G01M11/31—Testing of optical devices, constituted by fibre optics or optical waveguides with a light emitter and a light receiver being disposed at the same side of a fibre or waveguide end-face, e.g. reflectometers
    • G01M11/3109—Reflectometers detecting the back-scattered light in the time-domain, e.g. OTDR
    • G01M11/3136—Reflectometers detecting the back-scattered light in the time-domain, e.g. OTDR for testing of multiple fibers
GB8709898A 1986-04-28 1987-04-27 Optical coupler device Expired - Lifetime GB2190264B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
FR8606106A FR2597986B1 (en) 1986-04-28 1986-04-28 OPTICAL COUPLER DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING OR CALIBRATING A REFLECTOMETER, ECHOMETRY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING A COUPLER AND MEASURING ATTENUATIONS USING THE SAME

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GB8709898D0 GB8709898D0 (en) 1987-06-03
GB2190264A GB2190264A (en) 1987-11-11
GB2190264B true GB2190264B (en) 1990-07-11

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GB8709898A Expired - Lifetime GB2190264B (en) 1986-04-28 1987-04-27 Optical coupler device

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GB8828408D0 (en) * 1988-12-06 1989-01-05 British Telecomm Loss detector
EP0380779A3 (en) * 1989-02-01 1991-10-30 Leningradskoe Otdelenie Tsentralnogo Nauchno-Issledo-Vatelskogo Instituta Svyazi (Loniis) Method for determining the optical losses of optical fibres by reflected light
DE3910503C2 (en) * 1989-04-01 1995-01-26 Philips Patentverwaltung Optical calibration standard
US5062704A (en) * 1990-04-25 1991-11-05 Tektronix, Inc. Optical time domain reflectometer having pre and post front panel connector testing capabilities
DE4013884A1 (en) * 1990-04-30 1991-10-31 Standard Elektrik Lorenz Ag Fibre optic component reverse flow damping measurement appts. - has optical power divider splitting measurement light from reflectometer to measurement and reference branches
GB9202564D0 (en) * 1992-02-07 1992-03-25 Marconi Gec Ltd Optical signal transmission network
US5383015A (en) * 1992-12-22 1995-01-17 At&T Corp. Optical time domain reflectometry measurements on a multi-branch optical network using multiwavelength pass filters
US5808761A (en) * 1993-07-15 1998-09-15 Gec-Marconi Limited Path integrity proving in optical communications systems
JP3355259B2 (en) * 1995-03-31 2002-12-09 安藤電気株式会社 OTDR for measuring optical return loss
FR2751746B1 (en) * 1996-07-24 1998-10-23 Boitel Michel REFLECTOMETRY MEASURING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FIBER OPTIC CONNECTION
US5754284A (en) * 1996-10-09 1998-05-19 Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. Optical time domain reflectometer with internal reference reflector
US5767957A (en) * 1996-12-04 1998-06-16 International Business Machines Corporation Testing an optical cable having multiple fibers by the application of a light pulse to all fibers through optical jumpers of incrementally varying lengths
FR2789177B1 (en) * 1999-01-28 2001-03-30 Cit Alcatel METHOD FOR DETERMINING, BY REFLECTOMETRY, A CHARACTERISTIC OF AN OPTICAL FIBER

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US3958229A (en) * 1973-09-28 1976-05-18 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Optical memory systems utilizing organ arrays of optical fibers
US3976891A (en) * 1975-02-18 1976-08-24 Electra-Tronics, Inc. Photoelectric detector for smoke or the like

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FR2597986B1 (en) 1990-09-21
GB8709898D0 (en) 1987-06-03
GB2190264A (en) 1987-11-11
FR2597986A1 (en) 1987-10-30

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